Bush cheered by democratic reformers in tiny Albania and powerless dissidents in eastern Europe? In the old liberal calculus that would be a good sign that we were on the right side of history and thus naturally opposed by the Milosevichat, czarists in Russia, and realpolitiking Europeans.

But now in this climate? Surely must be something to do with no-blood-for-oil and Halliburton profit-making that would make him popular with these hegemonic and imperialistic Balkan peoples. Maybe once again part of a larger conspiracy to side with those overdogs in Darfur, Kurdistan, and Afghanistan?