Florida Dem Slammed U.S. Weeks After 9/11 Attacks

Less than a month had passed from the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Lauren Baer, then a student at Harvard University, was calling the American response to the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 a "moment of hypocrisy," attacking its "shameful history," and hoping for a "more humble and humane" America to emerge.

Baer, who went on to work in the Obama administration as a senior adviser in the State Department under both Hillary Clinton and John Kerry and is currently running for Congress, wrote a column every two weeks for theHarvard Crimson. Her October 10, 2001, column, "From Hypocrisy to Humanity," was highly critical of the United States, criticizing some of those who responded to the attacks.

"Some people speak of wanting an America to emerge from these events that is stronger and more proud," Baer wrote. "I wish to see an America emerge that is humbler and more humane."

She also wrote that America had a "shameful history" of standing up for its values.

"At the same time that America calls on the world to ardently preserve our sacred values, it must live up to a shameful history of having so rarely stood up for those values itself," Baer wrote.

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