Your constant denials of the obvious equivalence of those events informs us that you are neither honest nor to be taken seriously.
What, not "Marxist dialectic" verbiage in this one? The assertion that Pearl Harbor has any resemblance to Ft. Sumter is your "Jumped the Shark" demonstrator.
Even Seward admitted that Ft. Sumter was worthless to the Union. What is it now? A Park?