joining me now to discuss a leader some say was a man of many contradictions is chuck frilich, who is a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school. how would you characterize his leadership style? >> i think sharon was first and foremost a man of contradictions throughout his life. he was, first of all, an ardent defender of israel's security. a man who contributed to it enormously and who always emphasized the importance of israel being able to defend itself solely by itself. he was also very much a leading example of what's known in israel as the activist or the doer school of thought. it's a school of thought which did not have a lot of patience for deep, intellectual thinking, for what they would call fill local fiezing. it was about going out and doing things and tackling problems head-on. he was very pragmatic. he was a great tactician and at times maybe a very good short-term strategist but not a long-term thinker or grand strategist. that's probably one of the reasons that led him to times in some of the errors he made. finally i would say he really was a man of polar opposit