The road to hell
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1410160,00.html

Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare At Goats is grimly prescient in light of
the US torture revelations in Abu Ghraib, says Albert Scardino

Saturday February 12, 2005
The Guardian

The Men Who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson
240pp, Picador £16.99

This book is Jon Ronson's attempt to understand the path that led to
Abu Ghraib and the interrogation methods used there. On the way, he
plays the fool, letting us laugh nervously at the outlandish ideas
concocted by American psychological warfare researchers since the
1950s. They try to kill goats by staring at them. They attempt to walk
through walls by concentrating on lining up the atomic particles in
their own bodies with the atomic spaces in the wall. They play music
from children's educational TV shows very loudly at a prisoner in a
shipping container on a disused railway siding to make him more willing
to answer questions.