Onkar Ghate is a senior fellow and chief content officer at the Ayn Rand Institute. Islam and the War on Terror[edit] ARI has taken many controversial position

Onkar Ghate is a senior fellow and chief content officer at the Ayn Rand Institute. Islam and the War on Terror[edit] ARI has taken many controversial positions with respect to the Muslim world. They hold that the motivation for Islamic terrorism comes from their religiosity, not poverty or a reaction to Western policies.[42] They have urged that the US use overwhelming, retaliatory force to "end states who sponsor terrorism", using whatever means are necessary to end the threat.[43] In his article "Ends States Who Sponsor Terrorism", which was published as a full page ad in The New York Times, Peikoff wrote, "The choice today is mass death in the United States or mass death in the terrorist nations. Our Commander-In-Chief must decide whether it is his duty to save Americans or the governments who conspire to kill them." Although some at ARI initially supported the invasion of Iraq, it has criticized how the Iraq War was handled.[44] Since October 2, 2001, the institute has held that Iran should be the primary target in the war against "Islamic totalitarianism".[43] ============================ Perhaps it does not take a leap of the imagination to see how this calls for mass genocide of nations without any objective discussion regarding terrorism. I never understood why the US considers Iran a terrorist state when Iran are fully vested in fighting against ISIS.