No, no, you said it, you can't wiggle out of it now. You know it's not corporate welfare, don't equivocate or make up strawmen and red herrings!
How is it not corporate welfare? US taxpayer money going to US corporations for the sole purpose of aiding those corporations... yes, seems like corporate welfare to me.
Really? Neither the Nazis, Japanese, nor the Soviet Union ever managed a strike on the US mainland.
The Soviet Union was fully capable of destroying America as it existed, if given half the chance. Happily America didn't give them that chance.
The Japanese killed more Americans, by
orders of magnitude. Further, the Japanese have carried out several attacks on US mainland, through the use of bomb-laden baloons, mostly, and carried out a ground invasion of the Aleutian islands.
Al-Quada did, destroying two of of our iconic buildings and severely damaging the Pentagon, the former Department of War building itself, killing thousands of Americans on American soil. Nobody else has managed that. They're not dangerous, you say?
AQ is capable, no doubt, of causing various damage, terrorist acts, killing people and damaging property. They are not, however, capable of outright destroying American society, just as the Anarchist terrorists that operated in the US at the dawn of the 20th centuries were.