Vietnam

Right now in philosophy I am studying different types of principles that relate to moral aspects and how they should be deciphered. One theory is cultural relativism that attempts to prove through various arguments that a culture decides what is right or wrong within that culture and one can never say that what another culture did was incorrect because they would then not be following cultural relativism. My question is even though according to cultural relativism whatever a culture deems right or wrong is in fact right or wrong, in your opinion did we handle the Vietnam War in a proper manner? What actions do you think we could’ve taken to allow our troops to come back earlier and possibly have saved lives?

The Vietnam War was something of quite tragedy that took place for about way too many years, from the early 50s to the 70s.. I have not learned about it all that much except when I was in a very intense history class in high school where I learned much detail about the different conferences which took place and who bombed who and how the war finally ended. Casualties were enormous. More than 6,000 Americans were killed in just one year alone, The war finally ended in 1974 but it was a long cold war that waited too long to finish. I haven’t really watched many movies or documentaries on it but I think its something very important and even though it may be very hard to watch all the blood and gunshots and bombs its something we must remember and be educated about in respect to the prior generation and in respect to ourselves as citizens to the United States of America.