"foolish commitment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a commitment that you regret or to describe someone else's commitment that you think is unwise. For example, "I made a foolish commitment to volunteer every week when I already had too much on my plate."
For no matter how hard he tried to wriggle out of the foolish commitment to private school, my mother wouldn't allow it.
He diagnoses the malady of radical discontent with confident ease: antiwar protesters are animated by their "cloying self-regard," and terrorists are driven to murder by their foolish commitment to "mirages" like "the ideal Islamic state".
1) On the tax issue that consumed the first phase of the debate, Romney basically pivoted away from the foolish commitment to maximal rate reductions that he'd made while attempting to fend off Rick Santorum in the primaries.
Osborne came under further fire for condemning uncosted spending commitments as "foolish" when the Conservatives have dangled the prospect of £7bn of tax cuts for voters in the next parliament – without saying how this would be paid for.
But even those institutions with a teaching-first commitment like mine would be foolish to turn their backs on research.
It would be a great blunder if Europe's foolish leaders allowed a no vote to derail their commitment to admit more new members, especially to begin membership negotiations with Turkey in early October.
Illinois voters would be foolish to take for granted the extraordinary leadership and commitment to women, children and healthy families that Governor Quinn has demonstrated.
Given those circumstances and the Tory commitment, it would be both wrong in principle and politically foolish for Labour not to back a referendum.
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But since the right has no greater commitment to the market than the left, it is incredible that progressives are so foolish as to accept this framing.
However, since the right has no greater commitment to the market than the left, it is incredible that progressives are so foolish as to accept this framing.
