CH. 13-14 response

I thought it was interesting on page 116: ""the corproal said it will boost your energy(refering to the white tablet)" the soldier announced with a secretive smile on his face" does the soldier want them to get addicted, or does he just know what will happen and is seeing himself starting out all over again. At the fire fight this is when Ishmael actually becomes a child soldier that is a "killer", and he becomes addicted to the drugs, and considering what he is addicted on, now wonder he becomes distorted on what he does. Also you can see how movies affect his squad. the squad want to have the big, heavy weapons, and that is all they talk about, who they killed and how they killed them, i do find that disturbing, since they hardly care who they kill as long as its not a gov. soldier. I find it ironic that the lieutenant said that they where killing the civilians for the "betterment of this country" if they did kill some civillians. while i can understand some accidental casualties, though most of those could have been avoided, having a squad go kill some people is defiantly not accinedental.