Having flown the C-17 in and out of Afghanistan for 7 years now with four beefy engines and 3 or four sets of eyes up front, I'm not sure you could convince me to do it in a CRJ with just one other guy in the cockpit. Kabul is a zoo. Herat... same. Mazar, sure, just don't hit the ridge. The hostile fire part isn't what would bother me. It's literally everything else about the airspace. That and the -200 performance on a hot day around some of those 20000 MSL peaks... meh. Maybe for someone younger and more adventurous.

I'll keep putting up and down the east coast in my RJ and be quite content.