Maybe Bugs Bunny is a complex metaphor for the U.S. Army, eh?

I read this New Yorker article (by Adam Gopnik) reviewing a biography of Bob Hope yesterday on a plane. It's a pretty good article, but one section kinda stood out -- and half-entertained, half-confused me. Namely, there's this idea that maybe Bugs Bunny helps explain the U.S. Army as a concept. Yep.

Here's the paragraph from the Gopnik article:

The real …