Area of Northern Island: 5,456 square miles. Area of United States: 3.8 million square miles. Vast differences in population, ethnic and religious diversity, an

Area of Northern Island: 5,456 square miles. Area of United States: 3.8 million square miles. Vast differences in population, ethnic and religious diversity, and the fact that the United States successfully expelled the British in the late 1700s. Whatever problems the US has today they are not based on religious differences or ongoing colonialism. Nor can internal rebels focus their energies on a couple of cities within a small nation.