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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.

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

That's a very liberal post, and one that starts with a fallacious accusation of anachronism. The USA cannot survive without a coherent foreign policy. Isolationism on the USA's part let belligerent powers rise twice before, and the same thing is happening again now that the USA is turning inward. The rest of the world doesn't disappear because the USA ignores it. Those that we get into wars with happen to have economic and social models that are drastically different from ours, and they've already stated that they hold enmity with our models of same (and a false accusation that the "Anglo-Saxon" economic model caused the 2008 financial meltdown when it was actually their social market model). Churchill taught us that appeasing such beasts in the hope that they'll eat us last is futile.

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

Leaking the details of your national budget to another country's parliament is hardly the "interworkings of a financial deal".

But speaking of Iran, Germany's been one of their staunchest partners for years. Even with the strong anti-Iran talk out of them of late, they still trade heavily with Iran. As for China, have you noticed that even with the occasional backpedaling, they are shifting towards building up the euro into the world's reserve currency? If that undermines the dollar, you can expect a radical fall in your standard of living.

Speaking up about Germany doing something they ought not to do is not hating them; on the contrary.