Recent US diplomacy has seemed amateurish and naive.

It is something we understand and we expected as the most of the mainstream media outlets have not dared yet to speak freely against Mubarak... She continues

China s leaders would be naïve and foolish to bank on their country s peaceful and quiet rise to global preeminence.

Whatever the limits or contradictions of shared values, it would be naive to dismiss their importance.

It may stretch credulity to think that a high growth economy like China might soon be facing similar problems.

It may be that leaders and their staffs were naive in believing that their communications were really secure.

Indeed, it would be naïve to believe that the crisis is the only reason that public finances are in bad shape.

Clinging to the hope that it is all chance, and all natural, seems naive.

Mind you, the idea that the ultra rich could easily solve poverty is stupefyingly naïve.

By doing something, the fact that nobody told us we couldn't do it, we did it. And so there's something to be said about naivete.

Though political constraints prevailed, the euro s architects were however not naive. They knew that their brainchild was incomplete.

It is not naïve to believe that nuclear deterrence is both fragile operationally, and of thoroughly dubious utility in sustaining the peace.

And as I look back over 30 years ago, it was a little naive to think at that age that I could. But I wanted to.

There are those who will say that it is naïve to want a world free of nuclear weapons, much less to think that it can be achieved.

Of course, it is unrealistic and naïve to expect that the changes now underway in Libya will result in a rapid transition to European style democracy.

Sarkozy has called free trade a policy of naiveté, and wants to take a number of steps that would stand in the way of economic globalization.

All right. So we're going to immerse ourselves in the 72 percent of the planet because, you know, it's really naive to think that the Easter Bunny put all the resources on the continents.

That said, it would be dangerously naïve to believe that the exercise of power and the capacity to intimidate are unnecessary.

Nine countries already have nuclear weapons, and it would be naive to presume that others, particularly in regions of conflict, will not try to get hold of them.

Viewed in this context, the belief that the government s approach to Linyi reflects a new responsiveness to human rights abuses seems naïve.

To be sure, governments cannot escape their responsibilities to their citizens, and only the most naïve technocrat believes that the market alone can ensure energy independence.

And it is not naïve to believe that non proliferation and disarmament are inextricably connected that so long as any state retains nuclear weapons, others will want them.

Nor is it naïve to believe that even if nuclear weapons cannot be un invented, they can ultimately be outlawed.

This merging of medicine and morality now seems naively unscientific, thanks to nutrition science, which replaced traditional dietetics as a formal discipline in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Many who spoke to me directly in my Facebook community believe that Congress is utterly broken and regard faith in either of America s major parties as naïve.

It may thus appear naive and counterproductive to raise the bar and suggest that we need to go beyond trade and move investment to the top of our priority list.

China s leaders would be naïve and foolish to bank on their country s peaceful and quiet rise to global preeminence. At some point, America will awaken from its geopolitical slumber there are already signs that it has opened one eye.

But to insist that protesters, old and young, fathers and mothers, numbering as many as 150,000, were willing to risk their lives sitting under a scorching Tropical sun for two months only for money strains credulity.

It is naive to assume that the most populous EU member state could and should keep out of a crisis situation in a region with immediate manifold European and German security interests.

But inciting violence is banned in the US as well. The First Amendment of the Constitution does not protect freedom of expression when it can be shown to create a risk of imminent violence.

But, having met Chávez personally a dozen times, it appears naïve, at least to me, to attribute great significance or conviction to anything he says moderate, hard left, or in between.

Indeed, it is still unclear where China s amazing evolution will ultimately lead, so it would be naïve for American leaders to assume that China s intentions will always be friendly and constructive, or that the two countries are inevitably destined to grow closer.

Given Geithner s extensive international crisis fighting experience at the US Treasury, the International Monetary Fund, and the New York Federal Reserve, his current naiveté on this point is simply stunning.

But it is not naïve to be concerned about the most indiscriminately inhumane weapons of destruction ever invented 23,000 of which still exist with a combined destructive capability of 150,000 Hiroshima bombs.

Is it naive to believe that the world amounts to more than zero sum thinking? Can Europe promote fair play in international affairs, or must it accept a new game of great power rivalry as inevitable and throw itself into the fray?