U.S. seizure of Greenland would be unconscionable

Re “White House says military ‘always an option’ in Greenland” (Jan. 6): On Tuesday, the White House stated it was considering options concerning Greenland, including utilizing the U.S. military. Greenland is part of Denmark, a sovereign state, which, alongside the United States, is an original NATO treaty member. Under NATO, an attack on one member nation is considered an attack on all.

In signing the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the cause of American national sovereignty. They enshrined treaties as the law of the land in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. Any U.S. military action against a NATO ally would stoop below the level of Nazi Germany’s 1941 attack against the Soviet Union, with which it had signed a non-aggression pact a mere two years earlier.

In the name of all that is sacred and honorable, please don’t tell me this is what our country has come to.

— Stephen Treadgold, La Jolla