Solomon eye-witnessed the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11, and thinks there’s a big difference between the storming Capitol build and the 9/11 tragedy that resulted in over 3,000 deaths, the fall of multiple buildings, and half the Pentagon blowing up.
“I think there’s a difference in the scope of loss of human life, of damage.
“But the idea that one of the most important icons of democracy, the House of the people was so easily violated, has a lot of parallels, we wanted to know, how could it be that the Pentagon and the Twin Towers can be taken down by a bunch of guys in an airplane? I think people want to know: ‘how did this happen?’” Solomon added.
As a life-time conservative journalist, Solomon said he believes that no matter which side of the political aisle one is on, Americans would easily feel shocked to see the Capitol being attacked, and the “fervor to prevent a further attack” is similar to 9/11.
Pelosi called the incident on Jan. 6 an “insurrection” and used the incident to impeach President Trump.
But Solomon and his media called it a riot, since “there had to be some effort that the intent and the purpose of this invasion of the Capitol was to overthrow the government. And I don’t see that being the case at this moment.”
Solomon said with 28,000 troops now in the capital city, “That’s five to seven times what is left in Iraq and in Afghanistan, the U.S. troops, so we have one of the largest deployments of U.S. troops in American history to an American city. The city is on lockdown.”
Solomon said there is now a high degree of confidence that people in Washington are “in as good a security posture as we could ever be, if anyone were to try something” and that alone is enough to “ward off” any serious violence around Inauguration Day.
