Winning the War in Afghanistan

[ganulv]

You shouldn't bring rule of force and legitimacy so close to each other. It's badly misleading.

Just a guess based mostly on what I have read of Habermas’s work (all of it in English), but the concept of legitimacy seems to play a far greater role in German discourse than it does in the U.S. So the word ‘legitimacy’ might have a more precise or perhaps just a different meaning for you than it would for an American using the term. Again, just a guess.