There's no link to this, but on CNN's American Morning today, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said the following:
It is in the best interest of airlines, of airports, and certainly of those of us at USDOT and FAA to make sure that we're not chronically delaying passengers. So the efforts that we're undertaking between now and the end of the year when I report back to the President are designed to do just that. We want to get better information to consumers, we want to make sure we're communicating with them, but we also want to treat the root causes.
"Root causes"? Seems like Secretary Peters has lifted a foreign-policy gimmick and dropped it into a discussion of transportation policy. Before you know it Newsweek will feature a cover story titled: "Airlines: Why do they hate us?"