Good, live television is a difficult alchemy and it was foolhardy of IMG to believe it could ditch so many of the established team without risk of loss.
But for a man who cares so much about his legacy, overplaying his hand over an agreement of such overwhelming benefit to his country was foolhardy of Mr Karzai.
How can you at once be foolhardy to the point of insanity and be a survivor in a very difficult world?
Mr. Ordan said it would be foolhardy to reduce the level of care to save money.
He added: "It would be foolhardy for any British government of whatever hue to make us vulnerable to possible threats by giving up the power to retaliate".
"It would not be foolhardy" to encourage greater assimilation of Hezbollah -- the armed political movement backed by Syria and Iran -- in the Lebanese political system, even though Washington officially considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization, Brennan wrote.
The differences between the ways our bodies handle whole and highly processed grains may be arguable, but surely it would be foolhardy to pretend that a stack of doughnuts or a bowl of Sugar Pops is the nutritional equivalent of a bowl of bulgur or cooked oats.
Some said it would be foolhardy to leave, given the possibility of crime or looting in the wake of the storm.
But he said it would be foolhardy for Congress to cut any of the programs before the studies were complete or before a Soviet-American agreement on reducing strategic nuclear weapons.
But the report by the Crisis Group, an independent organization, warned that "it would be foolhardy to assume away the possibility of military intervention should there be another wrong turn in Iraq and the country disintegrates, or Kurds seek to take over Kirkuk as a stepping stone to an independent state".
