Shamus Cooke: How Obama Chose War Over Peace in Syria!

With Syria on the brink of national genocide, outside nations have only two options: Help reverse the catastrophe or plunge this torn nation deeper into the abyss. Countries can either work towards a peaceful political solution, or they can continue to pour money, guns, and fighters into the country to ensure a steady gushing into the bloodbath. President Obama will have no talk of peace. He has chosen war, since the very start, and he's sticking to it. A recent New York Times article revealed that President Obama has been lying through his teeth, about the level of US involvement in the Syrian conflict since the beginning. The President recently said, that the US government continues to give only "non-lethal" military aid to the rebels, but the New York Times revealed that the CIA has been actively funneling and distributing massive shipments of weapons to the rebels,over the borders of Jordan and Turkey. This "arms pipeline" of illegal gun trafficking, has been overseen by the US government since January 2012. It has literally been the lifeblood of the Syrian rebels, and thus the cause of the immense bloodshed in Syria. The New York Times reports: "The CIA role in facilitating the weapons shipments gave the United States a degree of influence over the process of weapons distribution. American officials have confirmed, that senior White House officials were regularly briefed on the weapons shipments." The article also explains, that a conservative estimate of the weapons shipment to date is 3,500 tons. So while Obama has repeatedly lied about non lethal military aid, he has been personally involved in overseeing a multi-country flood of weapons into Syria, many of which are given to terrorist organizations. The only effective fighting force for the Syrian rebels has been the terrorist grouping the Al Nusra Front, and now we know exactly where they got their guns. If not for this US sponsored flood of guns, the Syrian rebels, many of them from Saudi Arabia, and other countries, would have been militarily defeated long ago. Tens of thousands of lives would thus have been spared, and a million refugees could have remained in their homes in Syria. The large scale ethnic religious cleansing, initiated by the rebels, would have been preventable. But Obama is so intent on war, that he will not even discuss peace with the Syrian government. He has repeatedly stated, that there are preconditions for peace negotiations, the most important one being the downfall of the Syrian government, ie, regime change. If a toppling of a nation's government is Obama's precondition for peace, then Obama is by definition choosing war!