Why can hawks live with a nuclear North Korea and Pakistan but not with Iran?

By "An Old
Soldier"

Best Defense
office of nuclear skepticism

Why
is a nuclear armed Iran unacceptable,
when an already nuclear-armed North Korea and Pakistan are? 

In
order to buy into the Iran exception (the other two being the rule, and
now India, a third, has morphed into a rule maker) you have to
believe that Iran is perfidious and powerful. The former is true, and the
latter is not.  Iran
is also not crazy or eager for the end of the world.  Watch what they
do, not what they say. 

Israel
has a nuclear monopoly.  They are deluded into thinking that they can keep
this monopoly permanently. The GoI  also has to brush up on the
theory of deterrence.  It worked for the U.S. and USSR, it works for China and
the U.S., and it will work for Israel and Iran -- especially because Iran is not crazy. 

A
nuclear Iran is not good, and not preferable, but it is not the end of the
world.  To bomb makes little sense and may be the policy equivalent of committing
suicide out of the fear of death.

"An Old Soldier" is just that. Dammit. Where's
Terry Allen when we need him?