The Real Story Behind the Men Who Stare at Goats »
Posted By Eagle_Eye 2 weeks, 3 days ago in Arts & Entertainment
WASHINGTON (Nov. 6) -- Here's the question that emerges from the newly released movie, The Men Who Stare At Goats: Did a member of an elite branch of the U.S. military really kill a goat with his mind?
Not exactly, says John Alexander, a retired U.S. Army colonel and key character in the book of the same name.
"Here is where we disagree," says Alexander, who was a fierce critic of the book, written by British journalist Jon Ronson, when it was first published. "They hit the goat -- I know the guy who hit the goat; I trained with him as well. But this was dim mak."
Dim mak, or the "death touch," is a form of martial arts that "defies conventional physiology," Alexander says. It works by disrupting the body's "chi."
The movie follows the adventures of a reactivated "psychic spy," played by George Clooney, traveling through Iraq with a journalist. As a member of the First Earth Battalion, Clooney, as the movie's title suggests, has mental powers that enable him to kill a goat just by staring at it.
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Maybe this is what happened.
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