That's interesting...

Americans' Ratings of United Nations Among Worst Ever

Our good friends over at Gallup have put out some interesting data on the good ol' UN. The isn't any information on causation for the approval ratings, but I do find it interesting that the highest rankings seem to come aroung the time of the first gulf war, and Sept. 11th. Maybe there was something else at work there, but the timelines do match up reasonably well.

On another point, I was had expected the approval ratings among Democracts to be higher than they were. Now, let's take a look at these figures for other regions in the world...