> And yet, maybe those men were actually farmers, producing an irrigation ditch to produce the food they need to feed their families
I doubt that farmers in Afghanistan are idiots.
They will know that because farmers almost never work in the middle of the night digging right next to the road, and that bomber planters almost always work in the middle of the night digging right next to the road, that it is very very very dangerous to dig by the side of the road in the middle of the night.
Farmers who, for some bizarre reason, have decided that they want to dig an irrigation ditch right next to the road in the middle of the night are going to make sure that the Marines in the area know the farmers will be out at that location at that time.
The war has been a major part of the farmers' lives for many years. They know how it works.
I doubt that farmers in Afghanistan are idiots.
They will know that because farmers almost never work in the middle of the night digging right next to the road, and that bomber planters almost always work in the middle of the night digging right next to the road, that it is very very very dangerous to dig by the side of the road in the middle of the night.
Farmers who, for some bizarre reason, have decided that they want to dig an irrigation ditch right next to the road in the middle of the night are going to make sure that the Marines in the area know the farmers will be out at that location at that time.
The war has been a major part of the farmers' lives for many years. They know how it works.