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Totten in the Balkans

By Charlie

Michael Totten, doing what I think is the dream job -travel writer -reports from the Balkans:

Albanian pro-Americanism resembles that of both Poland and Iraqi Kurdistan. The unspeakably oppressive communist regime pushed Albanians strongly into the U.S.-led Western camp, and the humanitarian rescue of Albanians in Kosovo from Slobodan Milosevic's tyrannical despotism bolstered that sentiment even more.
More kids tugged at me and wanted their pictures taken. It was overwhelming, and more than a little bit startling.

Yup, that's pretty much how it is there. It may surprise many folks here at home, but Americans are not universally loathed abroad.

June 30, 2008 05:22 PM Kosovo