Wars are no longer about saving the world from something, they are now ugly and meaningless, confined to dirty little places full of ethnic or religious intolerances. Who defines and manipulates the world and to what ends is no longer obvious, but that some are gaining enormously while most are losing is all too obvious. If you really don't know who to strike out at, strike wherever you can. Strike where those who appear to be rich, powerful and in control meet. Yes they are similar.
Some protest is authentic and deserves to be heard.
Note the following except from Bork's book. One of them described their mood. In short, they rejected America.