This article illustrates what is most wrong with the UN today. Annan embraces the idea of reform, but the entire thing is viewed as a political concession to the US, instead of a needed fix to the existing real problems. The quote from the French at the end in particular (“They may be going too far in trying to please Washington. The UN is not only about the US.”) shows this all too clearly: the reforms that the US is pushing for (like focusing on the problem with terrorism and eliminating massive bureaucratic corruption) are seen as only political ends for the US alone, instead of truly needed fixes.
Hopefully the reforms will actually work, despite what seems to be wrong motives behind them.