Al-Qaida regains some legitimacy for fighting to protect Syrians when we won't.
While Hezbollah built its legitimacy on fighting Israel, those two have not had a direct confrontation since 2006.
Party Secretary Trong, who also chairs the military commission and last year become president of Vietnam, is a party builder rather than a reformist, focused on strengthening party legitimacy by fighting corruption.
Jihadi Web sites have lit up with discussions for months about the legitimacy of Sunni Muslims fighting the Syrian government dominated by the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, experts said.
"That's why we have two governments fighting for legitimacy, we have two parliaments, two prime ministers - this has created the space for armed groups to flourish, to play an increasingly influential role.
But it was Auburn (13-3, 1-1) that looked like the team fighting for S.E.C. legitimacy.
Then there is the Congress, which has been fighting a crisis of legitimacy in the wake of multi-billion dollar scams, inflation and weak governance since the last couple of years.
But Assange's extradition will add a new level of complication to US politics, still fighting over the president's legitimacy from the 2016 election as the nation rolls ever more frenetically towards the next contest in 2020.
Perhaps his most powerful argument is that presenting the Civil War as a war between the Union and the Confederacy adds legitimacy to Southern claims that they were fighting for either state's rights or independence and not for slavery.
Meanwhile, within Syria, the coalition's legitimacy is being tested by some of the fighting groups, whose links to outside political leaders have been tenuous in the past.
