Arbeit Macht Frei

Troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned … One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions.

You know, when insurgencies begin to become intractable, one predictable response of an occupier is to instigate a concentration camp strategy. I wonder if the badges will be yellow, with sickles instead of stars…