When fighting monsters, one must take care not to become a monster.
Anyways, to answer you more fully:
The media has, depending on what sells, never shyed away from hawkishness. Consider the coverage from, say, Fox in the last decade--only reconsidering the war effort when it let them score political points against someone they disliked.
There is no compelling reason to "throw away the Geneva Conventions". You're a savage.
Also, since when is a people "tired, broken, and without refuge" anything you want to have around? The vast majority of the people conducting these acts of terror across the world are young men hailing from exactly that background--if they were members of proud, stable cultures, they wouldn't be engaging in such behavior.
Anyways, to answer you more fully:
The media has, depending on what sells, never shyed away from hawkishness. Consider the coverage from, say, Fox in the last decade--only reconsidering the war effort when it let them score political points against someone they disliked.
There is no compelling reason to "throw away the Geneva Conventions". You're a savage.
Also, since when is a people "tired, broken, and without refuge" anything you want to have around? The vast majority of the people conducting these acts of terror across the world are young men hailing from exactly that background--if they were members of proud, stable cultures, they wouldn't be engaging in such behavior.