is it also possible said  this Ranger's superiors   had no qualms about patching khadr up so he could be shipped off to Gitmo to be tortured 

yes a  human life - saved because of  his potential intelligence vital to the american's ill conceived and largely illegal GWOT

contrast this Ranger's behaviour with the US marines found pulling the bullets from Afghan's women's bodies killed in their cross fire or the journalists mowed down by US gunships in Baghdad