Don't Tell Me I Didn't Warn About Dayton's Duds

For two years now, I have been posting alerts about the American effort to presume to present Israel with a working Pal. security force so that it could continue its pressure on Israel to withdraw.

Well, as INN rports:

IDF Returns to Shechem to Replace ‘Dayton’s PA Army’

The IDF returned to Shechem and carried out a major counterterrorist maneuver that the Palestinian Authority’s fledgling army, trained by U.S. military officers, was supposed to have been responsible for. The Tuesday night counterterrorist operation nabbed an Islamic Jihad operative wanted for several years for planning two suicide attacks and for attacking soldiers.

The suspect, Zalach Mahmad Zalach Buchari, was responsible for planning a suicide bombing in the Tel Aviv central bus station in January 2002, in which 28 people were wounded...The IDF action Tuesday night bore out frequent military officers’ statements that the success of the PA forces in maintaining law and order is dependent on the IDF.

They have warned that if the IDF were to totally abandon the area, terrorists would regain the upper hand. "We see progress, but we won't give them full control of the cities. They're not capable of fighting Hamas and Islamic Jihad," a senior IDF officer, coordinating between General Keith Dayton and the PA, recently told TIME magazine.

...Dayton earlier this year said that the PA police-military unit will fall apart if progress is not made towards establishing the PA as a country...