You know, to address Sapper's comments and recent developments with the Egyptian Christians being beheaded, and major evangelists now weighing in on the issue, there is a strong possibility that a crusader movement may start taking hold here, and it could well be like it was a thousand years ago with constant warfare over there and sovereign knightly orders sending people in from time to time, sometimes establishing and maintaining small crusader kingdoms (autonomous zones) and relationships with the local governments.

For that, your citizenship is under threat until the CIA and State Department at least offer some letters of tolerance of that kind of action, and then there is the need for alternative ID, cover stories for when someone "disappears" for a deployment, managing sponsorship and finances for a deployment, dealing with the diplomatic issues.

It is not exactly full of shit or just emotionalism to discount this as a possibility. Small numbers were doing this during the Balkans conflict. The "officially approved" side was the Croats, but I know a few who were rolling with the Serbs when there was some relatively openly sponsored stuff with the KLA, and they were bitching loudly about the KLA having strong ties to an organization which up to that point had only been involved in some stuff in Afghanistan and a little in Africa - Al Queda. That was KLA heroin money and the pipeline into Europe.