You write that like membership in the WTO is necessarily a good thing.  It isn't.  International organizations range from "mostly harmless" to horrorshows.  (The mostly harmless ones are a basically specialized phone books with an information exchange/meet people conference every year or so - think ACM.)<p>Tariffs are a bad thing, but the US is a big enough gorilla that the WTO would figure out some way to accomodate the US in that circumstance.