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'”