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by fbarred 2005 days ago
Pearl Harbor is not seen as terrorism. It's seen as a military attack on the United States, and an act of war.

United States hasn't declared war since 1942: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unit...

"The last time the United States formally declared war, using specific terminology, on any nation was in 1942, when war was declared against Axis-allied Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, because President Franklin Roosevelt thought it was improper to engage in hostilities against a country without a formal declaration of war. Since then, every American president has used military force without a declaration of war."