Letters to the Editor: Where is the outrage over the cost of ‘completely unnecessary’ troop deployments?

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To the editor : The latest attempted militarization of American cities in Portland and Chicago is incomprehensible, completely unnecessary and a waste of taxpayer funds ( “The Portland ‘battlefield’ Trump describes doesn’t actually exist,” Oct. 7).

The estimated cost of the deployment of the National Guard and marines to Los Angeles is roughly $120 million ; the National Guard deployment to the nation’s capitol and now Memphis will be expensive too. As our country is many trillions in debt, how do conservatives in Congress support the president’s blunder to dedicate precious military resources to blue-voting areas irrespective of falling rates of crime generally ?