world. But he is not intervening to stop the mass killing, or to remove the man behind those attacks. "This is not like the Bush decision in 2003," Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, said on Thursday. "That intervention was aimed at regime change. This is designed to restore an international

s patience for peacemaking was not boundless. "Insofar as we find fault here, it is in the inability of either side to make tough decisions," said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser. "For us to continue to invest that kind of bandwidth in the process, need to see some investment from the part

re trying to be honest and realistic." Mr. Gordon took part in the Saturday sessions, along with two of Ms. Rice's deputies, Antony J. Blinken and Benjamin J. Rhodes; the national security adviser to the vice president, Jake Sullivan; the president's counterterrorism adviser, Lisa Monaco; a senior economic offic

's patience for peacemaking was not boundless. "Insofar as we find fault here, it is in the inability of either side to make tough decisions," said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser. "For us to continue to invest that kind of bandwidth in the process, we'd need to see some investment from th