The tale of two 30-year-olds who were on the battlefield of Afghanistan has two very different results.

One hit the jackpot. The other, the skids.

Omar Khadr was born in Canada and chose to join his father and friend to fight against the Canadians and their allies.

Alam Khan was born in Afghanistan and chose to work with the Canadians as an interpreter.

Khadr is now a multi-millionaire living in Edmonton with a cheque written to him bigger than Oiler Connor McDavid’s signing bonus.

Khan is sleeping outside and eating garbage, trying to survive on the mean streets of Istanbul, Turkey, as a refugee running away from the Taliban and ISIS.

It’s some unfair cards dealt that it’s now Khadr, who killed an American medic, getting an apology and a cheque for more than $10-million.

“About that, sir, I am really confused,” said Khan.

He, after all, can’t even get a reply out the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in his request to immigrate to Canada.

If only he and his pals knew how lucrative it could have been a terrorist in Afghanistan instead of helping our side.

“Just for $600 monthly, I destroyed my life,” said Khan. “I am really disappointed. Why doesn’t the Canadian government respect humanity? This is morally wrong.”

He’s still proud of working with he Canadian troops and would do it again. But he can’t understand why Canada would abandon he and dozens of others who wore the Canadian flag patch on their uniform while being so generous to a guy who was trying to kill them.

It’s not adding up for Khan.

Now, his wife and two kids are hidden in Afghanistan from the Taliban, who has threatened to kill them. He escaped to Turkey, hoping that letters written to Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen by Tory MP Erin O’Toole were going to help get him to Canada.

Instead, he gets nothing but silence. It seems every request or suggestion falls on deaf ears.

Needless to say, he was devastated to hear of the royal treatment Khadr has received while he is being treated like the enemy.

It’s pretty disgusting.

Khan said he never would have envisioned Canada would be better to the enemy combatants and terrorists than the local Afghans like he and his friends who turned away from terror and personal threats in order to work the Canadians instead.

jwarmington@postmedia.com