If you ask the wrong questions you get the wrong answers.
The big picture—Big Pharma has had a great run looting government treasuries all over the world.
Now the military industrial complex wants their bite of the apple.
The key question to ask about any public policy question is:
Who benefits?
As you said, if you ask the wrong questions, you get the wrong answers.
I don’t think those are the wrong questions I asked at all.
We harnessed the power of industry in WWII (against the will of many in the Roosevelt Administration who did NOT want to do that) to fight “the good war”.
Did those industrialists benefit financially? Damn right they did. Does that make it wrong?
I don’t think so. Not a bit.
Not only that, we gave huge amounts of arms to other countries like the Soviet Union, who we regarded as “good guys” only because we were driven to it by necessity. Even before the war was over, they were transitioning shamelessly into “bad guys”. So we gave lots of arms in the “good war” to very bad people.