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Yorick, you're painting with too broad of a brush. Using WTO trading rules to attack laws passed in other countries is a two-way street. Unless you want to say that the US is a protectorate of the UK since it lost some WTO trading cases and had to change its own national law. Note that the tax code just saw its largest re-write since Reagan, an avalanche started by one very big WTO mandate snowball.
And while the Kerry sisters may have visited Austrailia, the Aussies and everyone in the known world chimed in on the US election. We were blogged and bombarded to death with informational overload from the 4 corners of the globe. French and German and Chinese banks and newspapers announced positions on who should win -- many for the first time ever.
Puerto Rico, yes, is a terroritory, is quite happy that way, and can flip to being a state basically when they want.
Iraq.... well, I won't go into that except to say we all want the hell out of there at the end of the day. The last thing we want is a lasting US presence there. In fact, if they do become free people, chances are that in the long run they'll end up clamoring into the EU along with Turkey.
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