The Men Who Stare at Goats
by Jon Ronson
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Author: Jon RonsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-04
ISBN: 0743270606
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Book Review: A Confederacy of Dunces
Summary: 5 Stars
Military techniques vary with the Administration, the challenges faced and the level of brain power sitting on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the Cold War a lot of outlandish spying and interrogation techniques were tried out, including psychics and 'remote viewers,' giving prisoners LSD without their knowledge, getting them hooked on heroin, using subliminal messages, psychological torture involving humiliation, fear or cultural prohibitions, and various other alternatives to respected methods. The clear result from all of these experiments -- not all of them non-lethal, by the way -- was that they were all completely worthless.
It is somewhat surprising therefore, that after 9/11 many of these same failed programs were quietly reactivated, with the miserable results we have subsequently seen at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and on the battlefields.
Well, maybe not so surprising if you consider the Presidential Prayer Team, the unsuccessful search for 'missing' WMDs, the quagmire from having no exit plan and the general wanton disregard for the lessons of history.
This book is proof positive that a government conspiracy could never be successful with the current crop of comedians running things.
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