I sincerely apologize for my plagiarism, by not properly acknowledging the original source of a quote in a recent Echo letter. ‘War is outdated’, is a saying of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. He also says, ‘Destruction of your neighbour, is actually destruction of yourself.’
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