The Sunnis of EI, which began as a group supporting Osama bin Laden in 2000, are well equipped people, feared for their cruelty and advancing to death in front of their opponents.
Therefore it can not be ruled out that Syria and Iran, political enemies of the White House, could form an alliance with Washington to combat EI, an Islamic group that seeks to create a caliphate from Damascus to Baghdad to impose the most primitive version of sharia.
Last week, the EI released a grisly video showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley, who worked as a freelancer for Agence France Presse and Global Post shows.
This week, in another sign of cruelty, EI Syrian soldiers executed 250 captured at an air base in the province of Raga, in eastern Syria last weekend.
A EI forces have joined in recent months former military of the executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who supported the Sunnis.
The idea of forming a coalition to fight the EI round the head of President Barack Obama, after the murder of Foley, reported The New York Times in an editorial.
With the advance of EI, the White House began reconnaissance flights over Syria area with U-2 spy planes and drones (unmanned aircraft), but admitted that Obama does not have a strategy to fight this fundamentalist group, said that newspaper.
Despite the willingness of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to cooperate with the United States against EI (reserving the right to authorize attacks on its territory to the White House), Washington would not confirm nor deny whether coordinate their actions with Damascus, which is immersed in a civil war since March 2011.
The eventual coalition would be formed by the UK, Australia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and UAE, among others.
As expected, the Republican opposition came to seek a greater involvement of the United States. Even former Republican presidential candidate John McCain, asked Obama to consider EI bombard positions in Syria.
McCain, in an interview with Fox News Sunday, said: "First we have to dramatically increase air strikes. And those air strikes must also be directed against Syria. "
It is not the first time McCain suggests the possibility that Washington is involved in the civil war in Syria, as in the past called for the United States support the rebels fighting to overthrow the government of al-Assad.
Thanks to the mediation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Moscow United States signed an agreement in Geneva to destroy the chemical arsenal of Damascus on September 14, 2013, which away the possibility of American military intervention in that country. But the crisis worsened again in the region again.
After the murder of Foley, EI jihadist propaganda against the West intensified with the beheading of a member of the peshmerga, the Kurdish military force operating in the semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, which have promised weapons White House the UK, France and Iran.
In the list of possible executions of EI are other journalists could face the same fate as Foley, including J.Sotloff Steven, 31, who spent more than a year kidnapped. His mother, Shirley Sotloff asked in a video at EI leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to release his son.
Happily, another American journalist, Peter Theo Curtis, was released on August 24 by Syrian militias linked to al Qaeda after being kidnapped in October 2012.
Foley beheading by the EI, on 19 August, continues to impact with pain in different parts of the world due to the dignity shown by the American journalist.
His Spanish counterpart Antonio Pampliega said in a blog that Foley illegally entered Syria in March 2012, to document the civil war that the country suffers.
"If something marked Jim was what he saw in the city of Aleppo (...) Their commitment led him to start a campaign to get an ambulance patronage to give service to injured civilians. Until that time, there was almost ambulances and the wounded had to be transported by taxis or private cars, "recalls Pampliega.
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