FT.com / Middle East & Africa / Sharon and Israel's future - Call for US caution as relevance of �road map� blurs: "Amid all the praise for Ariel Sharon as a man of enormous courage, �a wonderful and historic figure� with a vision of peace, the Bush administration made no mention on Thursday of what had once been its own strategy for ending the conflict with the Palestinians � the �road map�.
Analysts said Mr Sharon�s departure might remove the last pretence of what passed for a coherent US policy towards a two-state settlement, a solution that President George W. Bush once said could be reached during his time in office, though he later retracted this.
Edward Walker, president of the Middle East Institute and former assistant secretary of state for the Middle East, said the US-backed road map peace plan was �fundamentally dead� some time ago and that Mr Sharon�s absence left the Bush administration�s policy �hanging by a thread�. "
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