Hey, that was my idea!

A columnist for the New York Sun got it out in the MSM first, but I blogged the idea back in February:

"The West needs strategies conveying to the vast majority of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims that acquiescence to jihadists and their ideologies means a rupture with Western civilization. The consequences for this should be spelled out by withholding Western commerce, the Internet, arms, machinery, and know-how — all of which still represent the bulk of progress as we define it in today's world. Imagine a ban on weapons and technology, on Microsoft and IBM, on Boeing, Ilyushin transport planes, and Airbus spares."

Those of you old enough will remember the blockade of Cuba in 1961; we could, if we had the will, do the same thing again to all Islamic countries, this time to shorten the Thousand Year War...