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?
The one-handed "mobile infantry made me the man I am today!" guy will be some 45 year old who his nuts blown off in Iraq by a brave resistance fighter around 2005