Sharon may be one of Israel’s toughest soldiers but the issues confronting him may take more than brute force to resolve.  In world affairs soldiers are the solution of last resort.  When all else has fails, the military takes over and behind tanks, rockets and military personnel it concentrates brute force on an issue. 
It is usually a successful course of action.  However, as Ghandi first showed in India and Martin Luther King later in the United States there are other strategies that bring results in the face of force. The question for Israel is whether or not the military mind-set has the sophistication to address and effectively resolve the complex issues that separate Israel and the Palestinians.  
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There is no question that brute force and power bring resolution, usually quickly, and to the satisfaction of the most powerful of the antagonists.   But time and guerrilla actions can eat away at even the powerful adversary as the Soviet Union learned in Afghanistan. It will not be Sharon’s power that brings peace to Israel but his long-term strategy for peaceful coexistence in a very small space.