LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY catvincent)

SF writer and pundit Dr. David Brin has been saying for some time that one of the less noticed but vital pieces of damage Bush and his cronies have done to the US is to damage the operations, morale and reputation of the US military officer class.

And he's not missed the role of the Dominionists in this. (Admittedly, I did drop a comment post about us to his previous post...)

Here's the latest in his series on the subject:
"Alas, our military’s professionalism and dedicated tradition of Constitutionalism are under assault from many directions, not just the ongoing effort to bully or dumb-down commanders at the top. There is also a deeply worrisome campaign to suborn and infiltrate dogmatism into the ranks, from the side and from below.

Bruce Wilson a lead researcher for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, wrote to me about ongoing neocon efforts to transform the United States Military, turning it into an active force for the fundamentalist Christianization of America. (Moderate churches have always played a very different and positive role.)

Read more about scandalous efforts to turn our apolitical and Constitutional military into an instrument of religious orthodoxy, on our way toward a theocratic state like the one forecast - in fiction - by a worried Robert A. Heinlein. (In prophetic novels he portrayed theocracy beginning, chillingly, in the year 2012.) MRRF is commendably trying to combat this trend, which some services have resisted more vigorously than others. (For a darker view, from an even more worried perspective, see http://community.livejournal.com/dark_christian)"

If you're reading this Dr. Brin, welcome - and I loved "Kill'n People".