Late last week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the ban on women in combat would be lifted by 2016. An array of responses followed — some marked by outrage, others by elation — but some of the most befuddling came from cable news commentators who pinned the new policy's inevitable failure on, among other things, the embarrassment of public defecation. (Also: eros.) On last night's episode of the Daily Show, host Jon Stewart addressed their most strenuous objections head-on — literally, people are still going with the whole little-women-carrying-big-injured-men myth:
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