Worldview

I don't really care for the editorial this comes from, but I thought this was interesting enough to excerpt.

The guest at the European-American Press Club was the U.N. undersecretary-general for communications, Shashi Tharoor. He began his opening remarks by talking about Pew surveys in 21 major countries, all of them reporting declining regard for the United Nations. "It started with Iraq. The United Nations began losing stature everywhere, but for different reasons."

He said that large numbers of the respondents in 20 of the 21 countries blamed the United Nations for not being able to stop or control the United States in Iraq. The 21st country was the United States, where respondents blamed the U.N. for not helping us enough in Iraq.