Follow it back further. Many of these same people (the groups change names) are the same who fought tooth and nail to pull us out of Viet Nam. We were winning that war until Kerry, Kennedy, Clark, et al. pulled funding. There are a lot of ghosts in SE Asia that moan because of them.
They’re hard at work again to lose this war, only the stakes this time are exponentially higher. Failure is truly NOT an option.