The US is putting Syria on hold for a week or so.  But Saudi Arabia is out there attempting to flog up support for a military strike on the Bashar al-Assad regime.  Apparently, as long as someone else does it.

Arab League foreign ministers met in Cairo on Sunday, passing a resolution pressing the United Nations and the global community to “take the deterrent and necessary measures against the culprits of this crime that the Syrian regime bears responsibility for.”

Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Gulf states have previously worked behind the scenes.  But foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal broke the oil kingdom’s public silence on the Syrian civil war.

“The time has come to call on the world community to bear its responsibility and take the deterrent measure that puts a halt to the tragedy,” al-Faisal said.