I honestly think this policy will last about 60 days. When those airlines that are just about at bankruptcy realize that there is a segment of the population out there that really WON'T fly because of all of this.... they're going to raise holy hell about the procedures...(because their bottom line just dropped off)
That's when all this will end, and we'll pass the "profiling" procedures like the Israelis do now, and bomb sniffing dogs, which is what they (the TSA, not Chertoff) really wanted anyway.