Sharon may be brutal, but so is Barak,
I feel that Sharon is certainly a negative addition. He will sour the atmosphere. He will shift the whole terrain of the discourse to the extreme right.
It seems to me as usual they are looking at the wrong address. They should look closer at home. I don't think the Sharon policy of attempting to besiege a whole people ... is a policy of utmost responsibility.
Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map,