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>"yes Mr Kennedy, these friends of yours are very nice at parties, but unfortunately they are neither qualified, nor actually capable of fulfilling their role and so no, you won't be appointing them" is what the Bund would do.

The irony here being that the degree to which Kennedy and Johnson bungled 'nam was in large part a doing of the professionals with their academic attitudes about how foreign policy and war ought to be conducted. Obviously you don't get do-overs with history but it's very possible that Kennedy's preferred cabal of self serving frat bros would have concluded "the Vietnamese are screwed either way but we come out looking better not escalating, dominoes be damned".

>If people making generic cancer drugs for use in africa had to be held to the standards in the west, we'd all be better off.

How can you say that without an understanding of how much it would shrink the market in Africa?

$600 "perfect" insulin vs $50 "good enough" insulin. Metaphorically speaking.