The Anchorage Address, 2106

The radiation suit precluded the need for make-up.

The President began to speak.

“One hundred years ago at this hallowed spot, called Anchorage on the old maps, the nature of humanity changed.  A small country that once existed in these Irradiated Lands, called Korea, using the rationale known as the Bush New Nazi Doctrine of pre-emptive war, struck against those it feared were about to destroy it.  It targeted this small city in a suicidal and futile gesture of resistance. 

We are not here to condemn, condone or side with the misguided that went before us.  Rather, we are here to celebrate one hundred years of peace and prosperity in our new world.

Near annihilation was the conclusion and climax of 10,000 years of human society based on competition and conquest.  But facing extinction permitted us to make the great leap; realizing that cooperation, compassion and love are the next stage in evolution and choosing to disallow poverty and false riches, hatred and intolerance, religion and superstition.  These evils our children and their children will know only as past here in the dusty wastes of Anchorage; not in the stars we visit today.”