What is the difference between Islamic car bombers, and Japanese Kamikaze pilots during WWII?

Question

Or even the 19 that flew the planes on 9/11.

Answer 1

None, except that the America didn't want to end the war when the Japs start Kamikazing.

Answer 2

Quite a lot is the answer. By in large Japaneses Kamikaze pilots had to fly their missions as part of the overall governments strategy in the war and had little choice in 'volunteering' for this dubious honour. Anyone, however, involved in killing in a deliberate fashion has got some similar moral questions they should have to resolve with themselves. Those who do so not as part of a job, or because they have been told to kill this person/these people by someone else and kill ( and perhaps kill themselves in the process) as they believe ( rightly or wrongly ) what they are doing is the right thing to do are on far less shaky moral grounds than those who kill professionally. i.e. the suicide bomber is far far more morally just in his actions than that of the paid soldier/pilot etc...as he is committing his actions based on his system of belief rather than because he is paid to do so. Terrorism is a difficult word to define. To me having a plane drop bombs on your village or a ship shell your town would constitute 'terrorism' as I know, I for one would be 'terrified' by the actions of those carrying such deeds. As it is terrorism seems to have become to mean the guerilla actions of any force against a far more powerful enemy and one they could not consider to fighting on an open battlefield. Things like suicide bombings, IED's etc are really the only weapon the 'poor' army has against the well equipped modern military force. To me though, both suicide bombing or bombs falling out of a plane or launched from a submarine, or wherever else, both constitute actions that would result in the victims of such attacks feel 'terror' and therfore are both types of 'terrorism.' Kamikaze pilots were forced to do what they did- forced through sense of duty, patriotism, honour or simply through being told they had no other option. To me, this doesn't make them terrorists, but victims. Many kamikaze pilots deliberately flew their planes into the sea suggesting that they too were morally unsure as to the ethical validity of their missions.

Answer 3

The Japanese Kamikaze pilots flew in military aircraft and hit military targets. That's a legit, if somewhat crazy, military action.

Answer 4

The Japanese were attacking military targets, not innocent civilians. The Islamic bombers are killing women and children on their way to buy food for their families, not soldiers. Is it clear to you now?

Answer 5

The Japanese Kamikaze's were primarily focusing on military targets like ships.

Answer 6

Car Bombers: acts of cowardice against the helpless to instigate/propagate a civil/religious war.

Kamikazes: Desperate acts of a lost war against military targets to defend their homeland.

Answer 7

Kamikazes targeted the military.

Suicide bombers tend to target civilians more so than the military.

Japan employed Kamikazes as desperate military tactic, extremists use suicide bombers as terror weapon.

Answer 8

The kamikaze targeted military assets. The mo's targets are indiscriminate.

Answer 9

Japan had a military structure that could be defeated . The Islamic fascists have none .
Its just anyone in Islam who may decide to become a bomb for the greater glory of serving Allah .

Answer 10

Probably some similarities. Kamikaze pilots were only used towards the end of the war, suicide bombers are truly selfless, and, more than scary.