Conservatives in general and FReepers in specific should be praising the Saudi’s. The King (and Bandar) refused a seat on the security council. They very loudly told the world that the Security Council is a farce and they see no reason to waste the time and money on the fools errand. By extrapolation, the entire UN is shown to be farcical.
What has happened is that the feckless Obama has abandoned the coalition seeking to overthrow Assad and by extension contain Iran. While many put the coalition down as American coat holders while America fights, that is not altogether true.
The Saudi, Qatari and Turkish military are almost certainly involved on the ground in Syria. They are now free of the burden of vacillation by American military officers and CIA operators who were on the Obama leash and were actually ineffective in getting anything much done.
Now that they are free to act as they see fit, they can go forward.
The fact the Saudi’s have come out of the closet so to speak is a major happening. The GCC doesn’t have a boss like the EU but it can be assumed that when the Saudi government speaks the voice of the GCC and perhaps the entire coalition is being heard.