This means that if another country's military is capable of ending a person's life, the USA must find a way to one-up that somehow. Otherwise both fighting forces are equally lethal.
What does she have planned? Do they have a weapon that can destroy the eternal soul?
It's that scene from Borat where Borat gets a rodeo audience to cheer to the idea of their president bathing in the blood of children, except as declared election mandate.