By sharing the leadership with others he has made his policy hostage to the limited mandate ( no use of force for regime change ) imposed by the united nations and the limited means of his allies in europe and the middle east .
But that 's not the same as saying that because we can 't connect them right now to observable predictions there 's no use talking about them .
但因为我们现在还不能将它们与可观测的预测联系在一起,所以这么说是不同的,谈论它们是没用的。
Besides american tanks and armies were no use in what had become a counter-insurgency intelligence game which the iraqis were better equipped to play than were the americans .