Ben Sasse: “why is it that Washington also jumps blindly into culture war fighting? Why is it we first divide into blue shirts…”

“why is it that Washington also jumps blindly into culture war fighting? Why is it we first divide into blue shirts versus red shirts, retreat into our tribes, and then try to figure out how we can inflict maximum damage on each other? That is not how adults in the communities across our country solve their problems, and that is not how they would like us to be solving our problems, but that is actually what is happening right now in this body. The legislation before the Senate is supposed to be about national security, which is the first and most important duty of the Federal Government. Republicans and Democrats, all 100 Members of this body, tell ourselves and tell our constituents that we love and want to support and provide for the troops. I want that to be true. Thus, I think we should be able to agree that national security is far more important than trying to run up partisan scores in another culture war battle. By the way, culture war battles are almost never settled well by compulsion, by government, and by force. But here we are, getting ready to have divide again, this time over the issue of women in the draft, and I want to ask why. Let me ask a question that should be obvious. Why are we now fighting about drafting our sisters, our mothers, and our daughters into a draft that no one anywhere is telling us they need?…”