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You're rather missing the point here. I said that they would be useful in combat roles that played to their strengths.
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And my counterpoint is that, even if used for their strengths, anything they could be deployed to do involving weapons could be done better by non-hobbits. I can't think of a military combat task that I would select a company of hobbits for over a company of men or elves.
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Do we know that short, small types cannot wield a long bow?
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You can only draw a bow back so far and still aim properly. You aren't really "wielding" a long bow if you have to stretch both of your arms as far as you can in opposite directions, because you wouldn't be able to control and aim the bow properly. I mean, the only way a hobbit could draw back one of those large five foot bows is if he sat down on his butt, placed his big hairy feet on the bow, and pulled the string back with both hands, and that is not terribly practical or efficient. Also, a powerful bow that is difficult to draw back for a man would be impossible for a hobbit to draw back.
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I just thought of a useful yet comical situation for Hobbits. Forming an archer line you could have one hobbit in front of every man/elf forming a team of high and low shooters.
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Yes, that would be comical. I would find it particularly amusing to watch all of the hobbits' arrows thud into the ground far short of where the mens' arrows fell.