Following the Crowd

Steve McGregor, AT "This plea should sound familiar: We're the only major industrialized nation not to sign up for the Kyoto Protocol emissions targets. We're the only industrial nation that doesn't guarantee its workers any paid vacation. We're the only G-20 country without a federal VAT or Goods and Services Tax. It's such a familiar refrain that when asking a friend of mine about the current "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" controversy, his first response was to point out that "the U.S. is the only major Western military..." I interrupted with "so what?" "