First tom its takes far more than discussion of politics to hurt my feelingsand you did not.These stats were just a complilation of 5 years of votes and i will say yes stats can be deceptive i,m sure right now you could say childhood obesity is up and child molestion is down with the right group to poll.We do know the muslims countries in the middle east hate us there is little to no doubt about that.This hatred steams from the past when the UN was formed and out of guilt over the holocaust Isreal came into existance.All the members of the UN came together and basically said allright alll you people get out it belongs to the jews now so bugger off.When most people and countries think of the UN they think of the USA due to all the humanatarian aid we provide throughout the world.What i would really like to see is just how much aid milatry food medicine all the rest of the members of the UN contribute because to me it seems we are writing most the checks sending most of the food most of the medicaine and most of the military forces to settle the squabbles that really should not matter to us at all.The truely sad thing is our boys fighting in iraq right now death rate is less than the murder rate thats in our country right now.Safer in a warzone than at home.We need to fix our problems here before you go running off to help others.