Walter Russell Mead has some useful things to say from time to time. Today is not one of them. He writes an essay that is almost a parody of a NY Times editorial: Dissing: The Sincerest Form Of Flattery in which he tries to prove that the world's contempt is a sign of our importance. Perhaps the next article will be designed to show that Jihadists attack us because they love us. He provides a list of leaders around the world who are publicly challenging the United States, but concludes that this is business as usual. Mead: “While administration missteps,...