Both are dangerously facile.

What we call terrorism has many causes, and one must beware of facile explanations.

The facile Clausewitzian wisdom that military action ultimately leads to a political solution is no longer convincing.

While populists might be particularly prone to advocating facile solutions, they hardly have a monopoly on that tactic.

Put a Texas oilman and his buddies in charge and what do you expect, conservation? Unfortunately, that is a facile excuse.

He has become increasingly reliant on the facile notion that state sponsored patriotism and nationalism can hold China s disparate groups together.

They are falling back on the same facile, prefabricated responses that Qaddafi used to demonize his domestic and international opponents for four decades.

As for power transition, much attention nowadays is lavished on a supposed American decline, often with facile historical analogies to Britain and Rome.

While official spin control is in full throttle, a growing number of thoughtful analysts are voicing concern that facile caricatures do not serve Thailand s interests.

But that search for long historical continuity is facile, for it misses one of the key determinants of debt sustainability the identity of the state s creditor.

Social vulnerability and frustration at the political system s failure to provide solutions are the grounds upon which radical movements have always emerged to offer facile solutions.

Rather than offering facile answers such as just let markets work or just get governance right, it rightly emphasizes that each country must devise its own mix of remedies.

What we call terrorism has many causes, and one must beware of facile explanations. However, the politics of frustration, of ambitions raised and then thwarted, is clearly one such cause.

Libya s new leaders suffer from something worse than foot dragging. They are falling back on the same facile, prefabricated responses that Qaddafi used to demonize his domestic and international opponents for four decades.

A principal means by which people are being diverted onto a terrorist path is the Internet, through which they are offered facile solutions to complex problems and are seduced by ideas of martyrdom and glory.

Europe s experience has shown that the subordination of society to economic theories is politically untenable. Social vulnerability and frustration at the political system s failure to provide solutions are the grounds upon which radical movements have always emerged to offer facile solutions.

PARIS It is facile to frame the deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo as an attack on freedom of expression. Are we supposed to be surprised that a global terror organization known for its brutal disregard for human rights and humane values would attack a media outlet that has specialized in provoking it?