With notable few exceptions (e.g. Russell Kirk), American "conservatism" isn't conservative at all. It is mercantilist liberalism, and shares liberalism's fixation on individual liberty as the sine qua non of human existence.
I wouldn't disagree with that. The basic problem is that the internationalist socialists on both sides of the Atlantic (the international left) are pretty much the same philosophically, so the assumption has risen that those who opposes them must also share a philosophy. Manifestly not true. I take it that you are more of an old-world conservative and don't think all that much of individual liberty. If you want to call a dedication to individual liberty not conservative, then I guess you'll have to put me in that camp too. Maybe we need a different label for American "conservatism."