We need to avoid the purple-thumb euphoria after the January election because we saw that it was not enough to produce a stable Iraq.

We're asking what kind of world the United States wants to inhabit in 2015, and what policies it should pursue now to promote that outcome.

Sharon had the personal credibility to take the next steps toward peace, similar to the way we talk about Nixon going to China. He was really one of the few people on the current Israeli scene with that level of credibility.

We're not going to be ready until January,

We're not going to try to avoid things,

We altered the rotations of units during the January election. And I think it's perfectly plausible to assume we'll do the same thing for this election,