I go to the US when I visit there. if I'm going somewhere else, I avoid transiting the US. Cplin Powell said some years ago that increased security and the limitations were putting of visitors to the US to the tune of billions of dollars a year, and it's their loss, not mine. If they want to play it that way, it's their country, and they are more than free to do so. But I don't have to transit that country, even if at times I have to go there.