I was there on Iwo Jima. Give me 100 American boys trained in combat basics any day. Many of our directors have inquired about introducing anesthesiology to the procedure. Trust me when I tell you it's untried. The American people have been duped by this sort of emotional advertising before.
Anesthesiology has no basis in science.
People are sheep. This fad, I assure you, will pass. By some measures we finished dead last in on-time departures in 1999. I don't think I'm misrepresenting when I say that, while this is true, it is true only in the narrowest sense. I am fully aware that terminal gate-holds are not a fashionable practice today.