Europe looked to its southeast last week to find civilization vanishing down a sinkhole. Perennially underprivileged Albania suddenly was no longer an organized society but a state of chaos. In the span of one week, what had begun as spontaneous revolts in a few southern cities turned all of the country into a Mad Max movie: children brandishing grenades and automatic rifles; wholesale looting; and frenetic, random gunfire--an utter collapse of civil authority. Foreign nationals were fleeing the country, many by helicopter airlift. Small, sun-washed Albania had become the state of Anarchia.
The uprisings that spread north to overtake the capital...
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