The Men who stare at Goats

I would like to share this article I found at http://sydneyanglicans.net with you: ------------------------------------ The Men who stare at Goats After The Da Vinci Code I have learnt not to trust books that begin by saying that “this is a true story.” It is pretty much an admission by the author that what is contained within the covers of the work is, well, unbelievable. It has a plausibility problem. But the more bizarre elements of Jon Ronson’s The Men Who Stare At Goats are anchored in a disturbing reality that we know to be the truth. The shocking images from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were too weird, too perfectly calculated to do psycho-sexual and cultural damage, to be merely a case of a couple of bored, barely literate prison guards having a lark. Read more here: http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/culture/reading/the_men_who_stare_at_goats/ ------------------------------------ You can read more stories at http://www.sydneyanglicans.net"