Greenland’s Wishes Don’t Matter to Trump
The president’s designs on the world’s largest island reveal his indifference to how its residents might feel.
by Peter Beinart
Aug 27, 2019
3 minutes
Tom Cotton has carved out a niche in Washington. From his bill slashing legal immigration to his defense of tariffs against China to his calls for attacking Iran and preparing for war with North Korea, the senator from Arkansas—who holds two Harvard degrees and won a Bronze Star in Iraq—has become Trumpism’s respectable face.
So it’s little surprise that his byline appeared in The New York Times yesterday above an defending Donald Trump’s latest widely mocked gambit. The op-ed’s title: “We Should Buy Greenland.” Its argument: Make colonialism great again.
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