One World Conspiracy

It was just a joke but I am already aware that the United States is a different kind of a place. The announcer said: "American Airlines is apart of the One World Federation."
"What's that?" said a bloke, "some kind of a cult?"
In fact it's an agreement the different airlines to work together.
But th question shows that there is deep unease in this country. Later talking to a serviceman as we waited for the pilot who was late(!), he told me how they were discouraged from walking about in uniform and that he himself had been spat at it in uniform.
So one to watch as I go to bed after nearly twenty hours without sleep... dreaming tonight of The One World Conspiracy.