Update on Women in Combat

 UPDATE on Women in Combat!

Okay, Santorum has clarified that he wasn't talking about women's emotions, but about the men who would be with them.

I was talking about men’s emotional issues, not women. That’s something I’ve talked about repeatedly. [...] Men in our culture are focused on if a woman is in trouble, obviously, to react to try to help to protect and care for that person. That is something that is built in culturally. So my concern is that being in combat in that situation, instead of being focused on the mission, they might be more concerned about protecting a woman in a vulnerable position.

So he's worried that our male, professional soldiers will fall apart because they'll be so worried about the poor,  defenseless women in their group.

Here's a newsflash for you, Mr. Santorum.  For the past ten years in both Iraq and Afghanistan, women have been serving alongside men in combat roles.  It's not official policy but it's been happening.  And guess what?  No one is getting all verklempt and unable to do their jobs because of it.

But then Santorum made it all better.

He says, “It’s not a matter of putting women in dangerous roles.” He tell[s] me, for example, that women are fully capable of “flying small planes.”  Link

What a douchenozzle.