Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.
It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
Policy gets out of date.
It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.
When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.
When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.
I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.
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