My Aisling

Monday, September 6, 2004

I have said several times in this blog that Kerry may well receive the title he deserves: the malignant root of the discord our generation felt over Vietnam.

In a long article, intended to be the first of several, Q&O discusses Kerry's rudely entitled Operation Dewey Canyon IV. It ends with a quote that I gladly endorse: "As one [Vietnam] vet is quoted as saying, 'defeating John Kerry would be the parade we never got.'"

Amen.

Let's hope Q&O's work leads them to the audio tapes of the Paris meetings with the NV that were being hawked by VVAW. I sure would love to hear Kerry speaking on behalf of his generation.

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Wise words: Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered "five," Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

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Aisling: (Irish: aislinn; pronounced ASH-ling): A vision poem.

In an aisling, the island of Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, sometimes young and beautiful, sometimes old and haggard. This female figure is generally referred to in the poems as An Spéirbhean (the sky-woman).
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