In a foreign country the other day, a throng of people, chanting slogans and waving flags, awaited President George W. Bush. Hundreds of thousands of protesters, right? People angry at American aggressiveness and arrogance, no doubt. World citizens who think Mr. Bush is a reckless cowboy, too simplistic, his thought too little nuanced, his pronouncements too unmodulated for this complex, modern world. After all, isn't that what American elites have been telling us for years, now: that the Bush foreign policy is making the United States into the world's pariah? The elites were wrong again. The Bush visit occurred in...