Danielle Pletka makes an unusual argument about Iran’s nuclear program:

The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it. It’s Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second they have one and they don’t do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, ‘See! We told you Iran is a reponsible power. We told you Iran wasn’t getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately. We told you Iran wasn’t seeking regional influence or regional hegemony through its acquisition of nuclear weapons.’ And they will eventually define Iran with nuclear weapons as not a problem.

That is Pletka’s entire statement from the video found here. Perhaps this is intended to be so dissimilar from everything else Iran hawks usually say that it will get more attention, but it is at odds with everything else hawks have to say about Iran’s nuclear program that it can’t help but undermine the entire hawkish case. If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon and doesn’t use it, the alarmists will be discredited yet again, and the U.S. might then be able to have an Iran policy that isn’t founded on irrational fear.

Any state with nuclear weapons is potentially a problem of sorts, at least for its neighbors, but it is not a problem that the United States needs to “solve.”