Air Force One Monologue
| Air Force One by Andrew W. Marlowe | |
| Character: | President Marshall |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age (range): | 18 - 55 |
| Style: | Drama |
| Length: | 2 minutes |
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President Marshall: "The dead
remember our remembrance. The dead remember our silence." I came here
tonight to be congratulated. But today when I visited the Red Cross camps,
overwhelmed by the flood of refugees fleeing from the horror of Kazakhstan,
I realized I don't deserve to be congratulated. None of us do. The truth
is, we acted too late. Only when our own...national security was threatened
did we act. Radek's regime murdered over 200,000 men, women and children
and we watched on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered
for over a year and we issued economical sanctions and hid behind a rhetoric
of diplomacy. How dare we? The dead remember. Real peace is not just the
absence of conflict, but the presence of justice. Tonight, I come to you
with a pledge to change America's policy. Never again will I allow our
political slushingers to deter us from doing what we know is morally right.
Atrocity and terror are not political weapons and for those who would
use them, your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer
tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.
