But Mr. DeBlasio also cast doubt on the rationale for which Deputy Mayor Robert Steel said the city would be willing to consider a private operator: the chance that a for-profit vendor would more readily embrace new technologies and parking systems.
Not content with that extraordinary achievement -- and not willing to trust in its permanence, Robert Krieble embarked on a heroic personal effort to consolidate freedom's victory by helping democracy and free enterprise take root throughout the former Soviet bloc.
This is a polite way of saying what Robert Gates, the previous defence secretary said more baldly, that having seen the paltry defence efforts that Europe is willing to make, its time for the US to drawdown.