That's the very attitude of the people who re-elected Woodrow Wilson on the platform slogan "He Kept Us Out Of War". Much as I dislike TR's progressive politics, he at least was a hawk that saw that the USA could be a great force for good on the world stage—and when he heard that campaign slogan, and about how Wilson was writing notes to the Kaiser begging him not to have his U-boats fire torpedoes on ships carrying Americans, he did say the following:
Of course I am. It isn't America. It's Europe. Why should I care how they conduct themselves
I was president for 7½ years, and if I were president now, I would send the Kaiser just one note—and he would know that I meant it.That isolationist attitude that re-elected Wilson didn't keep us out of WWII either. I don't want war, but Germany's becoming more and more belligerent and even hawkish. This'll end up on the USA's front porch again. German elites have been blaming "the Anglo-Saxon model" of economics for the 2008 crash—which is open racism against British and Americans—and positing their social market as the solution, even on a global scale.
Check your calender. It is 2011. We are far more involve in world politics than we should ever be in comparison to back then. To argue for more intervention when we need attention with out own affairs is silly. Good luck selling this to a war weary electorate.
What exactly is the threat to the United States here? You seem to be tap dancing around the fact that you hate Germany for some reason. Personally Iran and China are countries that peek my interest, not the inter workings of a financial deal in the EU.