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Good question.
Slogans for or against the UN apart, the humanitarian efforts by the UN and the other agencies have kept millions alive.
There is no guarantee that military intervention by the UN or NATO would work - the Security Council won't agree it (as commented by others), NATO won't go in (apparently there are calls for a "Kosovo-style" operation) and the African Union meeting in Ethiopia under Thabo (useless) Mbeki is simply finding ways to delay or put off the international arrest warrant - just as he stalled action against Robert Mugabe.
Executing Bashir won't help, as someone else said, there will be another to replace him so the UN should do what it does best - humanitarian efforts which can be agreed by everyone (including the Chinese) and leave talks of invasion to other bodies.
For a solution, I think working with the French backed Chadians may be a solution - leading to eventual secession for Southern Sudan and Darfur - but that would probably come from the Kenyan and Chadian Presidents: if we could find it in ourselves to back them with military support and finances.
The last time African leaders took out another of their own was Idi Amin and that bankrupted Kenya and Tanzania - they did the world a favour but Saudi Arabia took him in and gave him home. We (as Europe / the West) could have given some financial redress to the invaders who saved Uganda.
