Love Can Turn Back Violence

   Love can turn back violence. True of false? I think of  Tamerlan Tsarnaev's saying he had no American friends. Was that just him posturing himself in advance of his violence? Or could have large dosages of love have made a difference? Could we, as a society, have changed the course of history with just a little love?
   What things shaped the Tamerlan who bombed Boston, we may not know. But, we can wonder. Did he simply shift into a group that dispised America, and listened to their call? Or, did we nudge him there, hissing about immigrants or Muslims, or both? Which voices did he hear, and which shaped the Tamerlan of the bomb.