[xzins]

This is one area where I’ve disagreed with the administration from the get-go. I simply don’t believe in wars on “rotation.”

It should be balls-to-the-wall, full mobilization, unconditional surrender, blast the kingdom come out of the enemy until they cry uncle.

This requires us to KNOW what we want to accomplish, and then set the entire nation to accomplishing it.

Like the Marines say, “The Marines are at war; America’s at the movies.”

[George W. Bush]

It should be balls-to-the-wall, full mobilization, unconditional surrender, blast the kingdom come out of the enemy until they cry uncle.

I agree of course. Except for the balls-to-the-wall part which I finally realized makes no sense in any literal sense. Is it sports or military slang? We hear it all the time but I keep wondering if anyone knows what is meant by it.