Today I’ve been thinking about how history will judge us. I heard on the radio someone talking about how Time and Life magazines were so against America’s involvement in WWII. The media really was ripping the administration apart because we were fighting something that it looked like we couldn’t win. All of Europe pretty much hated us. (Sounds familiar doesn’t it?).

And then there was another show where they were talking about Reagan and how’s he was an eternal optimist. (I’m going to link this all up together in a cohesive thought I swear!) And he said he felt ok with his choices because he had faith in how the future generations will judge him. How future generations of Americans and other countries would judge him. He didn’t see the media as the writers of history. He was “certain” of his choices. He was optimistic — even when everyone else wasn’t. He was optimisticly decisive - even about judgement.

It started me thinking about how judgment really happens in the future, not in the present. That people who are going to judge the Iraq war are people who might not even be born yet. Think about that for a second. Most of the people who are really going to judge what we are doing… aren’t born yet. What will they think 50 years from now? I guess it depends on the outcome… and the outcome is freedom right?

And I wonder… is history going to judge us harsher for the IRAQ war where we did SOMETHING or are we going to be judged more harshly for Cambodia or Rwanda where we stood by and did NOTHING. I have to tell ya, I am leaning towards NOTHING being worse. But is history going to slap us in the face for all the times we didn’t use our power for good or is history more forgiving to those who bury their head in the sand?

Makes ya wonder. Makes me wonder anyway.

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