Santorum is right. Women should not be in combat. What are you objecting to in this?
Santorum is saying the male/female relationships could compromise missions.
He is absolutely correct.
I remember talking to a brigade surgeon (a female) about the behavior of our troops “down range” when we were in Kosovo. She said that the females in that setting intentionally used pregnancy to get sent back home.
It’s not just “ain’t it awful”. That absence left a hole in a unit that then had to be filled in with extra work for everyone else. And that gap can’t be filled if the unit is attacked. That’s one less defender.
Irrelevant whether he’s right or not, this stuff will cause him to lose an election against Obama much worse than he would have previously.
It’s not a good strategy to run candidates that most of half the electorate now hate. Goes for Gingrich as well.
“She said that the females in that setting intentionally used pregnancy to get sent back home.”
I remember the “Love Boat” in the first Gulf War, which had a high number of pregnancies on its deployment; every one of those women, and the “baby-daddys” if they could be identified, should have been dishonorably discharged. They liked cashing the checks and the bennies, but when the time came to step up they lay down - what a disgrace (and a blow to “equality”).