Democracy Arsenal has a post with 10 smart ideas re: how the USA and the West could help Darfur without American troops. Filter out the strategy-challenged partisan griping and focus on the suggestions themselves. Some of them tie in rather nicely to Evariste's recent analysis of the NATO Rapid Reaction Force, aka. the "Mini-Me Military Superpower."

America is not the world's only (or even its largest) military, yet intervention in these situations always seems to revolve around America. It should not. These are fine suggestions - and ultimately, their execution or lack thereof speaks loudly to the issue of whether the progressives' much-vaunted "world community" actually means anything.

Personally, I'm not holding my breath. But I'd like to be wrong this time.