Hate begets Hate

I refrained from commenting on the Boston bombing until now to let the dust settle, I guess that was a vain hope for it may never quite settle. The main question that came to my mind and I think many others was why did they do it. The one that survived said that they did it because of what they perceive as western countries war on Islam with the United States as the leader and that Americans hate of Muslims. Maybe it is just me, but I think blowing people up is not a good way to make them like you. They hate us for blowing them up and we hate them for blowing us up. Now this is a crazy idea, but why don’t we stop blowing each other up? Muslims have their idea of how their society should work and Christians have their idea of now their society should work. Now with the flow of information available to everyone, let’s let have an international agreement to let the people decide which ideas they want to live by the most or maybe come up with a new and better idea. I think the United States should withdraw our troops from around the world and step up our helping people and it will take time, but people will evolve into more peaceful societies that can live together. I know this sounds like a pipe dream, but look where we have come in just the last two hundred years, yes there were setbacks, but societies are a lot better now than they ever were in the past.