Edited sentence: A New York Times editorial acknowledged his policy had been efficient even as it excoriated him for the inhumanity of it.Commentators quickly attacked him for minimizing the significance of 9/11.Conversely Prime Minister Tony Abbott pointed at his government's policy of preventing illegal boats which had prevented similar tragedies since being implemented.When appearing on Australian television Labor treasury spokesman Chris Bowen said the photo was perhaps the most important taken this century, comparable to the image of Kim Phuc running along a road with severe burns after a South Vietnamese attack