We have to keep saying it, especially to our liberal and socialist friends.
But when we say it, we are most often met with blank stares and the impression that we are speaking what, to them, is a foreign tongue.
Most suffer from what one of my professors liked to describe as "my mother's theory of geopolitics"
What I usually say is this: So, you don’t want our soldiers fighting and dying in Afghanistan, but you don’t mind if they fight and die in Darfur. (To me this makes no sense).-—and, as you, I am met with blank stares.