Thai and Laos should become one country, but your country treatment of Issan has been the effect of opposite. Right now, Issan and Lanna already has fledgling awareness of independence.
That could be avoided.
I am not evading your topic. Sectarian tension is a great divisive issue in ASEAN. There are nations who hate one another for that.
Yes, i am in agreement that religious differences, especially if they are flared by radical wings, can affect peace. But, let us evade in talking down about Islam. As you know, not all muslims are like this, many have shown and clamored for greater integration.