War incidental in new Clooney comedy
The Men Who Stare at Goats is based on a book by Jon Ronson about a secret unit created by the US army in 1979 which, the author said, believed troops could become invisible, walk through walls and kill goats just by staring at them.
Ewan McGregor plays a reporter who stumbles across a member of the unit as he prepares to enter Iraq, and he and Clooney’s character Lyn Cassady go on an ill-fated journey that sees them kidnapped, shot at and hit by a roadside bomb.
