OBSERVATION OF THE DAY. Michael Totten goes adventuring in Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia.

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.

Read the full story. The old squabble between Mao and the rest of Communism left some souvenirs on the Albania-Montenegro border, and going from one country to another is not always easy, with centuries-old disagreements leading to border guards allergic to some license plates and passport stamps.