From a previous post about abject failure Keith Dayton:

US Lt-Gen Keith Dayton - the guy in charge of giving weapons and training to Fatah - officiously demanded that Israel make Gaza-related security concessions because Hamas was nothing to worry about. He insisted that "Hamas was weakening" even while Hamas was obviously gaining strength (how did he avoid the obvious contradiction: he blamed it on Israel naturally). He became a sarcastic prick when Congresspeople asked him about Israeli claims that Hamas was getting ready to take over Gaza. Then Hamas took over the Gaza Strip a couple weeks later. No worries - the State Department pressured Congress to move him to the West Bank and start all over. Because he's obviously both a gifted military analyst and very good at his job.

In a shocking turn of events, Dayton is failing in the West Bank too:

The United States security coordinator in the Palestinian Authority said he does not believe Palestinian security forces in the West Bank are capable of enforcing security needs in cities there, according to statements made recently in private talks. General Keith Dayton's views are seconded by the PA, which recently informed Israel that it lacks the necessary infrastructure to deploy police officers in Nablus... Israeli security sources believe the PA is concerned it may find it difficult to meet the task of gaining control over Nablus, especially when they will be asked to confront armed gangs, some of them affiliated with Fatah.

This is really disappointing for us because we had such high hopes for him. But given Dayton's massive success in training Fatah security forces in the past, we have no doubt that he'll be able to bring them up to snuff. Or he'll blame Israel for his own failures. Whatever. [Photo]

References:
* State Department, UN Make Things Up To Coerce Israeli Concessions, Scapegoat Israel When Plans Fail (Plus: Hezbollah Now Openly Bragging About Using Civilian Human Shields) [MR]
* US To Bring Abject Failure Of Security Assistance To West Bank, Renew Pressure On Israel. What Could Go Wrong? [MR]
* US Security Envoy Blames Israel For Palestinian Rocket Attack On Israel. Or Something. [Video] [MR]
* Memo To Foreign Policy Sophisticates - You'd Sound A Lot Less Stupid If You Stopped Mixing Your Condescension With Demonstrably False Fantasies Of Competence [MR]
* State Dept Pushing Congress To Move Abject Failure Keith Dayton To West Bank [MR]
* U.S. official doubts ability of PA to police West Bank [Ha'aretz]

Previously:
* US: Yeah, We'll Keep Giving Weapons and Training To Fatah. What Could Go Wrong?
* US To Lift Embargo, Pour Money and Weapons Into West Bank
* UN Set To Blame Israel For Intentional, Hamas-Engineered Humanitarian Crisis In Gaza