Concrete Evidence Of Stupidity

John Cole notes this classic overreaction by David Frum to the proscribed materials in the Gaza blockade:

I’m speechless:

On Monday, Israeli ships stopped a flotilla carrying materials that could be used for war, including cement that Israel maintained could be used to build bunkers, to Hamas-ruled Gaza. The crew of one boat resisted violently, triggering a firefight in which nine people were killed, most of them Turkish nationals.

Cement! It is far worse than I thought! You all were probably worried about countries or terrorist groups getting nukes, but apparently there are nefarious uses for cement! That stuff is all over the place- I look outside and I see it everywhere. My porch is itself a Quran away from waging an insurgency on my pansies. Should I call homeland security?

That’s reasonable conservative David Frum, author of the axis of evil phrase, who apparently is dumb enough to write stuff like this for CNN, but not quite wingnutty enough to get a gig at the Washington Post.

You know what?  By that logic, Israel should blockade food and water because they might be used by terrorists.  In fact, I think it's the duty of the American taxpayer to supply Israel with a massive dome to put over Gaza in order to suck out all the oxygen and provide oxygen tanks only to those Palestinians who can prove beyond any doubt that they are not Hamas quadruple agents.

It's the only way to protect Israel's vital national security interests, by assuming that every Palestinian is a Jew-hating suicide bomber and making sure they can't use the Grey Shari'a Demon, Concrete to protect themselves from Israel's holy right to collective punishment.

You know what else is banned in Gaza?  Newspapers and fishing line.  Lord knows what the Islamist bastards could do with knowledge and fish.