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Scott Walker Compares Daily Life in Israel to Sept. 11 Aftermath in America

The likely Republican presidential candidate makes his first public remarks about his recent trip to the Middle East nation.
Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, speaks to a reporter as he arrives for the Chad Airhart Blue Jean Bash fundraiser in West Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., on Saturday, May 16, 2015. Walker declined to say whether he would participate in the Iowa Straw Poll in August if he does become a candidate.

Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, speaks to a reporter as he arrives for the Chad Airhart Blue Jean Bash fundraiser in West Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., on Saturday, May 16, 2015. Walker declined to say whether he would participate in the Iowa Straw Poll in August if he does become a candidate.

Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Likely Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker on Saturday compared the feelings Americans had after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with those Israelis experience in daily life.

“Remember for a moment how many of us—the young people don't remember this probably so well—but those of us as adults remember what we felt like on the day after Sept. 11,” the Wisconsin governor said in his first public remarks about his recent trip to the Middle East nation, which he had never visited before. “That's how they feel almost every day. That's what they feel like because of what they're dealing with.”

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