The truth, however, is absolutely devastating, and it clearly emerges from the book No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington by former US National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice, who wrote that back in early January 2002 it was Brajesh Mishra who was pleading with Dr Rice to do something, anything, that would subdue the for-war lobby that was gaining strength within India (meaning the NDA government-in-power never wanted to go to war with Pakistan). According to Dr Rices recollections, the US by early January 2002 had already been resigned to a war between India and Pakistan when Brajesh Mishra frantically called her for help. I cannot constraint the war lobby here without some help, he had said. This led the then US President George Bush Jr to speak with Pakistans President-cum-COAS Gen Pervez Musharraf to persuade him to make the statement on January 12, 2002 that Pakistans soil would not be allowed to be used by terrorists (an ashen-faced Gen Musharraf made this commitment in a nationally telecast speech), the fig-leaf for India to not start a war. Brajesh Mishra, on the other hand, had indicated (i.e. lied) back in 2002 that it was because of Indias successful coercive diplomacy that had forced Gen Musharraf to make the January 12 statement.
