Ariel Sharon in Hospital

It does look very bad. My home news page updated the story a couple of times, and it looks worse each time.

If he does die, "will his Peace Plan fail?"

I'm very concerned about it. It may live and die with him. He practically embodies it.

We, typically, tend to both under and over estimate the influence of individuals as respects world events.

In this case, I think there is over-estimation in the sense that his vision cannot endure beyond his life.

Sharon in ways both good and bad has been a lion of Israel, but the course he has set for his country does not require him to be at the reigns.

What Sharon has provided Israel is a true Third Way. Not absolute militancy, and not absolute appeasement.

Somewhere along the line, Sharon developed the brilliant idea (perhaps someone else did and he adopted it - who cares?) of disengagement.

I don't see how any post-Sharon leadership can do anything but follow in his footsteps.

Sharon undergoes new emergency surgery (February 11):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/mideast_sharon_dc&printer=1

is he dead yet only I have to watch paint dry................

poor guy. there's been nothing on our news channels about him.