Us government is considering Action in syria over isis attack

The Obama administration is debating a more robust intervention in Syria, including possible U.S. airstrikes, in a significant escalation of its weekslong military assault on the Islamic extremist group that has destabilized neighboring Iraq and killed a U.S. journalist.
  
While President Barack Obama has long resisted being drawn into Syria's bloody civil war, officials said recent advances by the Islamic State group have made clear that it represents a threat to the interests of the United States and its allies. The beheading of James Foley, the American journalist, has contributed to what officials called a "new context" for a challenge that has long divided the president's team.
U.S. officials said they would also take a look at airstrikes by fighter jets and bombers as well as potentially sending special operations forces into Syria, like those who failed to rescue Foley and other hostages on a mission in July. One possibility officials have discussed for Iraq that could be translated to Syria would be a series of unmanned drone strikes targeting Islamic State leaders, much like those conducted in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.

Whether Obama would actually authorize a new strategy remained unclear, and aides said he has not yet been presented with recommendations.

The president has long expressed skepticism that more assertive action by the United States, including arming Syrian rebels as urged in 2011 by Hillary Rodham Clinton, then the secretary of state, would change the course of the civil war there. But he sent out a spokesman Friday to publicly hint at the possibility a day after the chairman of the Joint

Chiefs of Staff said the Islamic State could not be defeated without going after it in Syria.

"If you come after Americans, we're going to come after you, wherever you are," Benjamin J. Rhodes, the president's deputy national security adviser, told reporters in Martha's Vineyard, where Obama is on a much-interrupted vacation. "We're actively considering what's going to be necessary to deal with that threat and we're not going to be restricted by borders."