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Alain Lussier: There were, what, 3000 dead? Historically, that's insignificant. As a U.S. example, 50,000 died at the Battle of Gettysburg. What is significant, as my old profs said, is they struck at the heart of the Empire. In previous conflicts -- Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War -- the Empire managed to keep the barbarians outside its gates, its borders. In that sense, people may look back on 9/11, and I stress may, as the beginning of the great barbarian invasions.

Remy: Contrary to belief, the 20th Century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 135 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th Century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, Sister. Even if they had Church support, it was an achievement. So much so that the Dutch, English, French and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not in the tiniest Holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors!...Pius XII sitting on his ass in his gilded Vatican, while Primo Levi was taken to Auschwitz... That's not sad! It's despicable! Hideous!

Sister: If what you say is true, and history is a series of abominable crimes, then someone has to exist who can forgive us. That's my belief.