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?
That's the thing... young Bernie was great. Dude had the receipts. He just had to soften and try the "inside" game which we should know by now is a game we can't win.