I haven't argued much in this thread because none of you will admit to there actually being any kind of problem in Portland. You folks are sitting there - contra to evidence - and denying any problems at all.

No, we're not. We're merely denying that Portland is "war ravaged" - that the ICE has been experiencing a hundred days of continuous and ongoing violent assaults that would merit a military response. Several posters in this thread have noted that Portland has problems. Just not the kind of problems that require military forces.

Here, I'm going to give you something. Portland isn't a war zone.

Good. Then we shouldn't send troops there.

All Kotek needs to do is clear out the morons who are actively interfering with the federal agents who are trying to do their jobs but she won't do that.

Why does she need to do that? When they do anything violent, they can be arrested for committing violence. Other than that, you pretty much just let them protest. It's just worse if you try to suppress the protest with pretextual arrests for minor crimes. All you'll do is get even more protesters there. Which is why ICE, despite having exactly the same authority to go out and arrest those folks as Kotek does, isn't doing it either.