Can America and Syria work together to defeat ISIS? -Yahoo/Reuters

Purported airstrike on ISIS forces in Iraq. Could the same happen in Syria? Via Youtube

Syria wants to work with the United States to defeat ISIS. -Yahoo/Reuters. Syria's foreign minister, Walid al-Moualem said that any state serious about fighting ISIS will work with Syria. He said his government is ready to work with any country to fight ISIS. However, any attacks not authorized by Syria would be considered an act of aggression. For it's part, the White House is considering striking ISIS militants in Syria, though it is not clear at all if they will work with the Syrian government. The Obama administration almost launched a war with Syria last year and has sent support to Free Syrian Army rebels.

My Comment:
 I first posted about this story here. I stand by my comments that even though ISIS is partially the fault of Bashar al-Assad, it's probably better to work with him then against him. It's possible that we already are. ISIS is everyone's problem. Radical Islam is everyone's problem. Like i said before, this is a world war that affects most countries on earth. It is also an opportunity. The threat from ISIS is so severe that countries that would normally hate each other are at least considering working together to fight them. These alliances of convince may have no lasting impact, but hopefully people might learn to trust each other a little bit. Of course America and Russia (and to a lesser degree) China all have problems with radical Islam as well, but tensions are higher then ever.

The other thing to point out is that the fact that such diverse and otherwise belligerent nations are even considering working together is a clear sign how bad the situation in Syria and Iraq is. Their success this summer has been nothing short of amazing and more fighters are joining up from the Middle East and Europe everyday. This isn't going to be a war that will be easy to win and it won't stay contained to Iraq and Syria...