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. But I would always prefer to err on the side of safety.