To be fair, I suppose if your countrymen were yelling on the radio desperately for an extraction, I guess the last thing on your mind would be any detrimental long term effects on the airframe of a chopper.
Even if it was a write off after RTB, I suspect the brass would regard the propaganda value of such an episode on a mission as a bargain in exchange for a chopper that needed a major refurb.
If the pilots think they can handle it, I guess anything is a valid tactic. One read of books like Robert Mason's Chickenhawk and Marshall Harrison's A Lonely Kind of War (both great and recommended by the way) will show you that sometimes an unconventional approach with warplanes is the only way to go.
Chock