Poll: 'Big powers' taint U.N.'s image

What is tarnishing the U.N. image is the dysfunctional multilateralism that has evolved globally. The U.N. professes to be a global peacekeeper, but only through consensus. It simply has no capability for compliance. Compliance is regional and is sustained by the interests of the "Big Powers". Since its beginnings it has always identified issues but rarely been able to resolve them. If the U.N. is concerned about it's image it needs to provide a reality check on its capabilities and quit setting false expectations.

The U.N. taken over by "big powers?" Please! The U.N. should worry more about how it is seen in those "big power" countries. It has not been impartial for years. It has allowed itself to become corrupt with scandal and not proved to police even itself. It has been taken over by the likes of China, Iran, Seria and other very dangerous mindsets. The U.N. can't even manage to send in peacekeepers where needed or condemn anyone but the civilized world. It appears to want to appease terrorist countries to show how "neutral" it is. The U.N.'s time has passed. It is an ineffectual, corrupt, bloated, biased institution that the U.S. should kiss goodbye.

I AGREE WITH BOTH COMMENTS BELOW. BUT I DETECT A DEFINITE BIAS BY TWT IN CALLING BOTH "MARK AS OFFENSIVE".

The UN's biggest problem is it is trying to become the sole "Big Power" in the world. Conceived as a means to arbitrate disagreements between countries, especially the Superpowers of Russia and the US, it has grow into a superpower in and of itself and now wants to become the de facto World Government. It wants total control over all member countries, yet it wants to be free of any accountability to those countries. It's time the world trim back the UN as it has grow into the biggest threat to individual sovereignty world has ever seen.