Nun with Fumbers

I'm not a historian but what I'm really not is a mathematician, so let's have some fun with history and math!

I'm also not a statistician so we can mix that in as well.

Some facts.

On Dec 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. 2,403 people, including 68 civilians were killed.

This number constituted approximately 6 tenths of a percent of Hawaii's population in that time (423,300).

This number constituted about 2 ten thousandths of a percent of US population. Feel free to check my math and counting of decimal places.

On October 7th, the number of dead when Israel was subject to a surprise attack was about 1,200. Out of a population of 9.4 million, that's 1 thousandth of a percent, or ten times the relative number of dead.

Of course, the numbers are skewed because at Pearl Harbor, no one was kidnapped, and it is hard to compare a military base and a music festival, but we soldier on (as it were). Also, on October 7, a significantly higher percentage of the victims were civilians.

Faced with a threat which was clearly not existential, aimed at the military, not the civilian public, nor was it on the mainland of the US (heck, Hawaii wasn't even a state until 18 years later!) the US responded militarily (and in other non-humanitarian ways).

So why didn't the US pursue a ceasefire and negotiations with Japan?