No amount of belief can create a fact.

I don't know if those women were retarded or not. I do know that those radicals believe that they are duty bound to kill infidels.

At the turn of the 20th century the Hurst news media printed many stories about how horrible the Spanish were in Cuba. They got the people all riled up and insisted we go to war. Spain had done no such thing. We needed bases all around the world, and the best way to get them was to take them away from Spain.
We now have 800 bases around the world.