At the very margins of the media coverage of NATOs bombing of Yugoslavia, one might have stumbled across a stifled debate over the Wests broader strategic motives for the campaign. According to John Pilger, the real issue was oil. NATOs professed motive of humanitarian intervention concealed the true motive, the impatience of the imperial godfathers to complete their most urgent postcold war project: the establishment of an oil protectorate all the way from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea.2 Robin Cook, Britains Foreign Secretary at the time, retorted,

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