6. There was enough of a groundswell of opinion at the time of the sinking of the Lusitania that he could have made a case for involvement in the war; rather he chose to make his "...too proud to fight..." pronouncement that diminished America in the eyes of the world
Why should he have wanted to make a case for involvement in the war? He still appeared to have every chance of keeping out of it.
And what would have been the result of an earlier intervention? Probably a doubling or trebling of American casualties (since the trench warfare stalemate would have been still continuing) followed by a peace "settlement" as bad as or worse than OTL's (because Russia wouldn't have left the war, so the Franco-Russian alliance would have dictated terms, with the Anglo-Saxon powers marginalised).
There was nothing wrong with "Too proud to fight". His mistake was to allow German provocation (admittedly gross) to dislodge him from it. After that, it was a one way trip from bad to worse.
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