Milosevic was not in a position to completely ignore public opinion. It is far from sure that he could have escalated the level of atrocities. The first bomb that came close to killing a Yugoslav child changed this. As would happen in the U.S. if bombs were falling on New York, Atlanta, Chicago and Seattle, Yugoslavians rallied 'round the flag. So long as NATO bombs fall on the suburbs and railways of Yugoslavia, there is no atrocity Milosevic can commit which will cost him popular support.
War is freedom for tyrants.
It has admitted to unintentionally bombing residential suburbs, civilian factories, a passenger rail car, and part of a convoy of Albanian refugees. Pilots of British Harriers, tired of frequent misses, have turned to cluster bombs, which spray humanitarian shrapnel over a wide area. In spite of claims to surgical precision, this amounts to indiscriminate terror bombing. This war threatens more than the population of former Yugoslavia. It threatens the stability of the entire region.