If you’ve seen In the Valley of Elah, reading this story in the New York Times will be an eerie experience. The movie, with Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon and Charlize Theron, is about four buddies back from Iraq, three of whom kill the fourth. The Times story is about four buddies…

But read it. The eerie part is that the movie seems ripped from the headlines almost intact, like an episode of Law and Order. Except that the movie was made long before the headlines appeared.