War with China is not in the interest of me and my family. But the enormous U.S. presence in Asia is likely to lead to war sooner or later. The Chinese and American governments are vying for supremacy in the region like two rival gangs. Thanks, but I want no part of it. Dominating Asia is not in the interest of me and my family, even if it could be done without bloodshed.
Military conquest does nothing to advance our freedom and often has the opposite result.
In the present case, the American government may be in the right, just as the Corleones may be in the right when ambushed by the Tattaglias. It remains true that the interest of me and my family is to stay out of any such conflict. The last time members of my family went to war, my father was nearly killed and our ancestral country, Ruthenia, wound up in Joe Stalin's duffel bag. I much prefer life under the U.S. Government to life under the brutal Chinese regime, because many of our freedoms have, after all, survived the U.S. Government's efforts to whittle them away. But this is not to say that we owe those freedoms to our government, whose character has become increasingly lawless and criminal.