/>Rumsfail (rums? fal), 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”