grim evidence that rabim's dream of peace was buried with him. courtney keelie, aljazeera. >> and david miller served as senior adviser for arab relations and negotiator at the state department. and he's currently a distinguished circular. we appreciate you joining us, mr. miller. many praise the leadership and the approach to the peace process, but you say he was the anti-politician, a counter intuitive politician. and how so? >> well, i mean rabim was gruff, unsentimental, and he couldn't handle small talk, glad handing, and he was the ultimate politician in that sense. smooth, but never slick, but he was an authentic genuine figure with tremendous authority and legitimacy. and during his second time as prime minister, during the short three years that he served, 92 until his assassination in november of '95, he got an extraordinary amount done in a region, in a country where getting anything done was extremely difficult. >> why did the peace process effectively die with his death? >> there was no clear end game, and the notion that you could f