My Facebook friend Bob writes: "It's hard for me to overcome [my friends'] objection that Muslims are out to conquer the world. Any ideas?" I respond: It just ain't so. America is an empire, and those who promote it and profit from it have to tell lies in order to justify what they do. For example, they have, since 9/11, pushed the lie that the attack came out of the clear blue sky, that it represented the cutting edge of the new rising bin Ladenite caliphate taking over the world "from Spain...