Rumsfailure

I just love it when cultural events spawn new words, don’t you? If I’d been tasked with finding a word to compliment the following definition, I would have gone with bushcluster, but rumsfailure is probably better.

I found this at Antiwar.com Blog:

“Rumsfail (rums? fa-l), v.,

1.To self-destruct, melt-down or implode

under the weight of one’s own arrogance.

2. To fail spectacularly, particularly in

matters of warfare or diplomacy; to plunge into chaos.

3. Absolute, unmitigated disaster of national or

international proportions and consequence;

policy failure so utterly abject and miserable as to

approach the realm of the epic.

‘Although long considered to be a costly and murderous

fiasco, the prisoner abuse scandal revealed the war in Iraq

to be nothing short of a rumsfailure.’

See also: ‘Karma'”