If you are going to beat savages, you need to do savage things.
Ah, the wisdom of millenia of Christian civilization. No wonder our betters don’t care about silly things like constitutions anymore. Their serfs rejoice in the slaughter of innocents for the sake of punishing supposed “savages” of whom they know virtually nothing, halfway across the world, not for anything they’ve done to us but to others, who knows why, all in the greater interest of...something. One world government is all that makes sense, but I can’t say anyone has that much of a plan.
Perpetual war for perpetual peace, at least. There will always be a worse guy to kill, and therefore never any reason to stop and think “Hey, when do we get to calm down and not be savage?”