abstract:An Ostrich Policy relates to the inability of governments or people to acknowledge that a real problem or danger exists. Many African governments have been accused of an Ostrich Policy concerning the AIDS epidemic, of which Thabo Mbeki's speech at the Opening Session of the 13th International AIDS Conference on July 9, 2000 in Durban, South Africa's president is probably the most notable.
Britain and the rest of the world have discovered that burying your head in the sand does not work, and now each of them, is having to pay a heavy price for ostrichpolicy.
Alas, this Administration is unlikely to take such sensible steps, preferring instead to stick with a disastrous, ostrich-like policy of drift and appeasement.