But the Financial Times today reveals that he has checked with EU officials about the legitimacy of extending the government's loan to the railways beyond that date.
Islamists insist they control a democratic congress, voted into power in the country's first post-revolution elections, but opponents say the parliament lost its legitimacy by extending its mandate beyond its original limit in February.
The former general says that the congress has lost its legitimacy since it extended its mandate.
Yet to admit that the struggle for political legitimacy will be extended is not to say that the battle against Isis must be a multi-year engagement.
Besides, as Jordan's foreign minister, Hani Mulki, notes, Iraq's friends should back the interim government simply because "it's the only political group that can achieve something".Out of hostility to an equally hostile America, Syria and Iran have been especially reluctant to extend legitimacy to Iraq's American-sponsored political process.
While the American Homeowners Association, based in Stamford, Conn., has no data on the number of jointly owned weekend homes, "as the concept of the time share has gotten some legitimacy, it has extended to joint homeownership," said Richard J. Roll, the association's president.
The proposed bilateral agreement between Washington and Baghdad is the Bush administration's way of extending legitimacy to American forces in the country after the current UN mandate expires at the end of the year.
The concept of 'dirty work designations' extends the concept of legitimacy.
The trend towards politicized rulings extends beyond cases challenging the fairness and legitimacy of the political process.
With the theories of legitimacy and justice for a self-contained liberal society completed, Rawls then extends his approach to international relations with the next in his sequence of theories: the law of peoples.
