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The Financial Times (which led Monday with the news that BP Amoco, the United Kingdom's largest company, was about to take over Atlantic Richfield of the United States in an all-stock deal worth $25 billion) carried a front-page headline "America's illusions crash with downed stealth" and said that TV images of the wreckage have shattered "the illusion enjoyed by Americans for years that the US military's technologically superlative weaponry meant it could destroy unseen enemies with little or no danger to American life or property."
However, I've never had any illusions about the unsavory nature of the Kosovo Liberation Army, as the more simple-minded media outlets seem to still hold.
The answer is supposed to be his "illusions"--but more likely it's whatever remains of Gooding's credibility as an actor.
It was not until I took a classics course in college that I was told the original reading: the worst evil of all was at the bottom--hope, which feeds men illusions, which renders them blind to reality, which thrives on lies.
It is a mesmerizing moment, one that shattered my childhood illusions.