We'll just have to disagree. I think you are posting "emotional" facts and not "actual" facts. 90 percent polled agree with you? I guess I can't argue your own personal experience, but it seems specious to me.
Anyone who should be playing keeper can be trained to stop PKs. You have a defeatist attitude on that matter. Every PK will not be stopped. Maybe that is what you meant...but then that adds a touch more excitement to this great game.
America doesn't matter? This country is the sleeping giant of soccer that just opened one eye at the last World Cup. What will happen when we finally fix our gaze entirely on this sport?