That is true, of course, but that doesn t make this view any less naïve.

And Einstein said, Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

This is by no means a tactical position or an expression of political naiveté.

Online scammers will have access to a new and perhaps more gullible audience.

It says a great deal about the gullibility of financial markets that they took this argument seriously.

In the Middle East, the Iraq war is widely interpreted as a war for US control of Persian Gulf oil a rather plausible view given what we know about the war s true origins.

She laughs at me and the silliness of my thinking Do you think my husband would have loved me if I was less revolutionary? she asks. I find myself embarrassed at responding to a question for which I don't have an answer.

If Doha fails, some say, life will go on. That is true, of course, but that doesn t make this view any less naïve.

In Charles Savage s recent account of the Guantánamo uprising, The New York Times credulously reproduced the arsenal that GITMO officials showed reporters in a video still.

Unfortunately, key groups in all three countries claim that the contest for regional mastery now underway means that talk about cooperation is not only naïve, but obsolete.

This is by no means a tactical position or an expression of political naiveté. On the contrary, the territorial question has morphed into a religious one, and has thus fundamentally redefined the conflict.

Moreover, Russia, still traumatized by its Cold War defeat, wants to maintain the Syria Iran axis as a key bargaining chip in its difficult relations with the West, while both it and China are simply weary of the West s naiveté.

It was widely known that banks and mortgage companies were engaged in predatory lending practices, taking advantage of the least educated and most financially uninformed to make loans that maximized fees and imposed enormous risks on the borrowers.

Yet not only is such a demand naïve, with the Bush team battling for re election, it is not at all certain that most of America's European allies would heed a US call for solidarity if one were issued.