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It’s folly to look too far ahead in the NFL because injuries and circumstances can dramatically change the landscape from week to week.

Logic and reason do not drive the Trumpist right, and rationality is not what is motivating their mistrust in the mainstream media, and it is folly to think that doubling down on a commitment to principles that these people have already rejected is all it will take for news organizations to win these people back.

He also correctly predicted that the war on terror would degenerate into folly, tragedy and war crimes, with a side order of corrupt contracting and bureaucratic empire-building.

In 1999, his dismissal of Nato's military action in Yugoslavia as "unpardonable folly" was widely criticised.

Salmond described the Nato action as "an act of dubious legality, but, above all, one of unpardonable folly" and was heavily criticised for his comments.