Hicks is symtomatic of what increasing amounts of westerners are...

Hicks is symtomatic of what increasing amounts of westerners are feeling about the direction their 'civilization'is being steered.
-equally, if not more, corrupt than the organisations he went away to fight for.
He was obviously idealistic.
Sounds like he was merely a 'humanist' - therefore an enemy of most political states at ideoligical war with each other.

Nothing new here.