You heard it here first: The US won the Vietnam War. I know that’s not official policy, but take a look: which culture/system/way of life took over? The domino the USA was trying to stop …was stopped! To wit: Check out this video of scads of Vietnamese kids begging for Christmas presents from Santa under a giant statue of Ho Chi Minh. Interesting and freaky, it’s like Halloween meets Christmas, with lots of little Viet Santas running around. I went out on the town the next day, in Saigon, and it was…on fire. Just about every little kid in Saigon (and many throughout the country) dressed up as Santa on Christmas Eve. What a night. Tons of kids on scooters living more of a Bruce Springsteen dream than anything we’ve seen on the Jersey Shore. Made a Florida Christmas look positively authentic! It’s all about toys and presents, nothing about the Spirit of Christmas whatsoever. Which was ironically fine. You can’t even object to it being commercialized because they don’t even know what it was to begin with! Christmas Carols everywhere, but no meaning to the words. But they love the celebration, and totally embrace the imagery and basic outlines of the ritual, which, as we know, is mostly about stuff and its acquisition. I repeat: News Flash. The USA did not lose the Vietnam War. It just took a few years to shake out.