How come when Buddhist Japs bombed Pearl Harbor the US didn't declare war on Buddhist Extremists but on Japan?

Question

But when Saudi Muslims attacked America the US declared war on Muslim extremists, Afganistan and Iraq but not Saudi Arabia where the terrorists came from. Could there be a hidden agenda here?

Answer 1

Wow, I have never said this - in all my answers here. But this is the stupidest question I have ever seen. My IQ slipped 10 points just reading it. I now want to go listen to K-Fed perform "music."

It's a question that reaches out and HURTS you with its badness.

Mommy!

Answer 2

The Japanese during World War II were fighting a political war, not a religious war.

Some prominent Muslims have made it clear that they are fighting a war of morality against the U.S.

There is a difference.

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because they wanted access to Pacific shipping lanes; the U.S. had imposed embargos on Japan; the U.S. had an alliance with China that Japan didn't like; and other political reasons.

Some Muslims bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, and attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in 2001, because--among other reasons--they believe the U.S. to be religiously offensive and morally abhorrent.

So, what can one conclude? Some wars are political; some are ideological; some are religious. The Muslims who carried out the attacks in 2001 were not identified with a PARTICULAR country. They identified themselves with Islam first and foremost.

Answer 3

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in an effort to keep America from interfering with its plans to take over Asia and the Pacific Rim. But the US declared war on Japan. Because the US declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on the US.

Answer 4

Um, no, Mr. Political major. The US is currently involved in a war with radical terrorists who do not follow conventions of war, nor do they claim allegiance to any country at all. They don't even wear uniforms!
The Japanese government officially orchestrated Pearl Harbor.
The only thing the two examples have in common is that the US was not the instigator in either case.

Answer 5

The national religion of Japan is Shinto, not Buddhism. The Kamikaze attacks were inspired by the Divine Wind myth and the whole war was propagandized through a misinterpreted prophecy spoken by Ameterasu. And Japan never would have had the power to attack anyone if we hadn't forced them to open their country up to outside trade...

Answer 6

While there is a hidden agenda, your prognosis is misdirected.

The religious bkgrd of the pilots in the Pearl Hrbr bombing was not a factor. The Japanese government and it's emperor ordered the bombing. So if you were a Christian in the Jap airforce, you'd also be doing the bombing.

Answer 7

The Japanese government ordered the bombing of Pearl Harbour, it wasn't a bunch of extremists acting independently. Terrorists do not act with their government's support, so it would be ridiculous to declare war on the country they come from.

Answer 8

Japanese are not necessarily Buddhists, they could be Christian, Shinto, animist.
Saudis are certainly Muslim and almost certainly Sunni. and the bases of these Muslims was not in Saudi Arabia.

Answer 9

Perhaps becasue the Japanese government didn't bomb Pearl Harbor in the name of the Buddha.....

But yes there is another agenda. I wouldn't call it hidden though.

Answer 10

First of all, most Japanese aren't Buddists. They are Shinto. Terrorists don't represent any particular country. They are all over the world. That's why the war on terrorism is so complicated.