President Kennedy solved the Cuban missile crisis by promising not to attack or assassinate Fidel Castro. The U.S. has kept its side of the agreement for forty years.
Can the U.S. keep its written agreement with Israel for forty years after G.W. Bush is out of office? The agreement, written in April 2004, promises that in return for the Gaza disengagement, the U.S. will never support a Palestinian right of return to Israel, the U.S. will always support defensible borders including large Israeli population centers in the West Bank and will never expect Israeli cooperation with Palestine except based on Palestinian suppression of terrorism.