Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome Anatole Leaven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible State Craft.

Taking us back to that moment when the Iraq War went sideways, 2003, 2004.

And lessons learned, why?

Because much of the attention right now on Ukraine

is about a war that describes something like Iraq, like Vietnam, like all the other

small wars that the U.S. has involved itself with since the big one, the struggle in the

first and second war against European powers.

However, and until a very good evening to you, I read your foreign policy piece and I look for

lessons learned because of the complete domination of the US as military on planet Earth.

And yet in my lifetime, in our lifetime, we've seen repeatedly that great big military machine crash and

fail against small states.

Is there one or several reasons we can identify for that.

Why is it that we do so poorly on the small scale

and have such a great reputation on the big scale

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