The 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly opened last week, and even some of the U.N.’s supporters are getting a little weary with the farce. The Hill, an online newspaper aimed at Washington insiders, published a piece on Tuesday that asked, “Is it time to reform the United Nations?”

Reform would be great. Quitting the U.N. would be better. Contributor Francesco Stipo makes a solid case for both.

“A long list of heads of state lined up to address the annual event,” Stipo writes. “There are great expectations about this session because the work of the United Nations has become essential in an increasingly complex world. However, the international organization has not been able to effectively deal with issues such as the war on international terrorism, nuclear nonproliferation or the prevention of a global economic crisis.”

That’s altogether too kind. The U.N. isn’t ineffective. It’s corrupt. But to let Mr. Stipo continue his case for reform:

“One of the problems is that the General Assembly’s voting system does not reflect the political and economic balances of the world: under the one vote-one nation system, the United States, which contributes 25 percent of the U.N. budget, only has 0.5 percent of the voting power in the General Assembly (one vote out of 193 member nations),” he points out. “Without the veto power in the Security Council, U.S. influence would be irrelevant.”

But here’s the problem with Stipo’s article. The U.N. isn’t ineffective; it’s corrupt.

“The U.N.’s failures, from its inability to stop ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Sudan to widespread abuses by U.N. peacekeepers across Africa, are legion,” historian Nile Gardiner says. “Inaction, incompetence, and even abject inhumanity have all too often been the hallmarks of U.N. operations, which have frequently demonstrated a callous indifference to human suffering.”

Member nations have all too often used the body as cover for their own crimes. That’s why the U.N. Human Rights Council (which includes serial human rights abusers such as Pakistan and Venezuela) condemned Israel for the conflict in Gaza in 2014, but failed to even mention Hamas – which instigated the brief war.

“Instead of focusing on actual human rights violators around the world, as this international body was created to do, the UNHRC keeps its main focus on Israel, a nation that has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect and preserve the lives of civilians, both during this latest conflict and throughout previous defensive responses to Hamas terror,” wrote Israeli Ambassador Ido Aharoni in Time magazine.

Corruption is also a U.N. hallmark. According to an Associated Press report in 2010, “the United Nations has cut back sharply on investigations into corruption and fraud within its ranks, shelving cases involving the possible theft or misuse of millions of dollars.”

That’s one way to deal with corruption.

More broadly, the U.N. has simply become irrelevant.

In The Hill, Stipo calls for member nations to “restart such important debate” on reforming the U.N. A more important debate should be taking place in Congress – isn’t it time for the U.S. to quit the U.N.?