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...transfer of political authority on June 30 is extremely premature. By that date, there will not be a sovereign government with any political legitimacy. And here's another challenge we face: we need to put the training of Iraqi security services--the police, army, border patrol and others--solely under the control of the U.S. military instead of the Coalition Provisional Authority and give these Iraqi recruits more money. Iraq is costing us $4 billion a month, and only a tiny percent of that has gone directly to support the creation of Iraqi security forces. We should also transfer authority...
...project in the Bronx, and that's where Blue Blood begins. "The ghetto could be a world of three-dimensional, 360 insult," he discovers, "where no one had enough so they ruined what they had, and then came looking for yours." He learns to turn his hat around while patrolling dark stairwells--to minimize telltale reflections--and to expect a sergeant to touch a beat officer's shield after a winter patrol to make sure it's cold. He learns that the crackheads he keeps in line make more money panhandling than he does. He learns how to turn...
Today Conlon is cruising the neighborhood for the junkie who brained Big Bird, steering with one hand and juggling multicolored case files with the other, head swiveling constantly to scan the sidewalks. He drops by a project tower to do a "vertical patrol," which means taking the elevator to the roof and trotting down 16 condom-and-crack-vial-strewn flights to the ground. A crowd of teenagers loiters in front of the entrance. "Let's see how many of these guys break when they see us," Conlon says as he gets out of the car. None do, though...
...mook's job, but he does it with a mandarin's eye. He analyzes the subtle semiotics of "jerkology," the interrogator's art of cajoling a prisoner into confessing--"of convincing a perp to trust you more than he trusts himself, and then betraying that trust." Empty hours of patrol time fill up with banter, and Conlon transcribes it with a verve reminiscent of Mamet...
Soldiers for Hire A look inside the shadowy world of the private armies that now patrol the war zones...