More and more people (including our own Foreign Minister) seem to be subscribing to a new doctrine: Presidential Infalibility.

David Ignatius takes on this doctrine in today’s Washington Post. The Maximum Leader will certainly like the Winston Churchill reference:

The British historian Christopher Andrew has argued that one of the
decisive strengths of Winston Churchill, generally reckoned the greatest modern
war leader, was that he learned from his mistakes. He bungled badly during World
War I, championing the disastrous assault on Gallipoli in 1915 that was made
with too few troops and too little strategic planning. He made other errors in
his early career, from economic policy to diplomacy, but he learned from them
and became a better leader. He never stopped growing.