Vietnam Revisited

Re “The Tourist Who Ran the Place,” Jan. 24: I’m confused. Nguyen Cao Ky boasts that he held absolute power in South Vietnam: “If I didn’t like your face, I could shoot you.” Then he says he believes his homeland is gradually shedding its “authoritarian” communist ways. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Perhaps those who oppose reconciliation ought to take a hard look at the Vietnam for which they are nostalgic.

Virginia Cassara

Irvine