Successive liberal administrations have increasingly threatened the very existence of the US hard right. Legislation on tobacco usage and changed public attitudes to arms sales have hit hard at industries that traditionally act as the hard right's financial base. For bombing is the arms industry's best earner. Bombs, once dropped, last only fractions of a second and cannot be re-used. Making their employment the fastest way known of transferring public funds into private hands - namely taxpayers dollars into the hands of those who own the arms companies.
Most sources agree that the tonnage dropped on Serbia and Kosovo was phenomenally high.
A likely secondary motivation behind NATO's action relates to heroin. As mentioned earlier, Kosovo is of immense tactical significance to the illicit heroin trade. Yet he apparently did so to a level which provoked a bombing campaign of unprecedented proportions in recent history. An action so threatening to the expansionist ambitions of Corporate America that it was met with maximum force.