Agreed re: Blair at Camp David, although I doubt it would have stopped The Decider from proceeding as planned.

It’s generally interesting and instructive when a politician changes their mind. Because it often means they’ve thought it over and come to a wiser conclusion.

And wasn’t it Winston Churchill who said – ‘Never explain. Never apologise.’ I don’t necessarily agree with him, but that is almost a rule of politics these days that they don’t admit their mistakes.

For all of that, it seems to me an asset to possess the flexibility to live and learn and change your mind and come to a more reasoned view. Hillary’s initial position here was clearly nonsensical by any sane perspective. It’s a shame she got it so wrong initially, yes, but at least she did come round.

In the opening stages of another potentially brewing conflict, at Camp David back in 2002, Tony Blair agreed to invade Iraq.

We might certainly wish he had changed his mind by March 2003. He certainly had the chance. But he fluffed it.

Or perhaps he didn’t want to look like a flip-flopper. Such a shame, that.

I do think, as noted above, this flip-flop is part of a larger character issue. And while I, too, want an end to war I’ve honestly never thought it was important to have a woman in the Oval Office. It would be great, but I want the best person in there. So far, she hasn’t convinced me she is that person.

Any acknowledgement that she just might have been wrong would have been fine with me. But she has a long history of being incapable of admitting she is wrong and that, to me, is a character issue.

Her flip-flop was surely political. Not only is she still hearing about her 2002 vote to authorize the war in Iraq, her opponents are criticizing her for last month’s vote to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. She says it was to gain leverage for negotiations; they say it’s a prelude to an invasion.

Who but Hillary really knows where she’s going on this issue? I wouldn’t be surprised if she has already focus-grouped it.