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Or to approach the same point from a slightly different direction - Elie Wiesel wrote some pretty awesome stuff, but that doesn't mean we should have more Holocausts.
That's an important point. He's a fan of Jacques Prévert, and I'll try to point to him that without WW2, Barbara (and many other of his poems) wouldn't have been written, but that it still doesn't make war in general, nor WW2 in particular, a good thing.