Still no communication

Mad cow fuss is about lack of trust, not science

Thousands of candles will light the heart of Seaul tonight, as they did four years ago. Government officials say the rekindled protest agiantst the import of tainted U.S. beef is political instigation by opposition parties and leftist groups without scientific basis. True, there are elements of political football in the ongoing fuss about mad cow disease. Even so, President Lee Myung-bak and his aides have none but themselfves to blame, as they fisrt made political approaches to this issue.

Currently, a nine-member fact-finding mission is visiting the United States for what the government describes as an inspection but critics see as just a field trip. Given both the composition of the group-all but one of the nine members are present and former government officials- and the limitation of their activities thre- they can neither visit the farm in quesiton nor conduct a sample survey- the latter sounds more plausible.

The government also stresses it has drastically stepped up quarantine inspection of the U.S. beef, from 3 percent to 50 percnet of imports. Yet even quarantine officers say no amout of sensory inspectgion of cut bee can detect risks without observing cows' brains. One unidentified official, describing the whole act as a "show", confessed a sense of shame.

This administraion's political posturing reaims unchanged from four years ago,
bovine spongiform encephalopaty recurs IN aMERCA
only to escape the moment and with little intention of actually keeping it

All these lies, makeshift excuses and hiding of facts are aggravaging things far worse than they should be.
Most Koreans know a case of BSE in an aged dairy cow can hardly be any reason for national brouhaha.

Nor are Koreans more easily frightend or fanaticized than..눅누ㅜㄱ

sparked a national fury..
All it did was to one-sidedly notify the people of the outcome after all was finished
Without the belated national protest, the import conitions must have been far more disadvantageous to Korea.
to renew pressure to open wider the Korean beef market.

Lee's greatest failure as a leader is not setbacks in democracy, economy ro even national security but in respecting the people and being respected in return..