Richard Engel Quotes
Lebanon does not have a powerful army.
Engel, Richard. And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East. Simon & Schuster, 2016.
The founding fathers antipathy to standing armies had an historical basis, even in England.
Since the Partition of India to create the state of Pakistan, Pakistan has wanted to integrate the Muslims—especially near the border. However, many Indian Muslims did not choose to leave India for the new Islamic nation. Pakistan has had designs on some of the Indian areas and has maintained a very large army.
Richard Engel is an American journalist and author who is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".