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The gnawing and growing misgivings that the US and other western governments have endangered their own men and mission by arming an extremist Pakistan to the teeth has burst into public domain with an American war hero questioning the policy in a legal scrap. Dakota Meyer is the first living marine to receive the nation’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, since the Vietnam War for his role in repulsing an attack and saving the lives of many of colleagues in Afghanistan.

Following his stint in the US forces, Meyer began working for armament maker BAE Systems in the US in March this year and straightaway ran into issues that evidently conflicted with his ground experience in Afghanistan of essentially fighting Pakistan and his proxies. In an email to his supervisor earlier this year, Meyer complained that it was “disturbing” how Pakistan was being supplied with advanced thermal optic scopes made by BAE Systems when US troops were being issued outdated equipment. He argued that the firm was endangering US troops selling the scope to “the same people who are killing our guys”.

“We are simply taking the best gear, the best technology on the market to date and giving to guys that are known to stab us in the back,” Meyer was quoted saying in an email cited in a lawsuit he has filed against BAE Systems and his supervisors there. The lawsuit also refers to his fighting “Pakistani insurgents” in Afghanistan, and points to the growing resentment on the ground of US and Nato troops who see Pakistan as an enemy but are constrained by the political and diplomatic exigencies of their governments in coddling Pakistan.