In the Muslim world, there is a profound perception that United States justice is rooted not in law but in political expediency.
"Politicians are conniving, wheeling-dealing scum," he says, even as he prepares to give in to their expediency for the sake of the country's long-term security.
Possibilities to explain this include variations in targets of treatment in different ICUs (e.g. Haematocrit) or in the expediency that deviations from a defined range are treated.
These manoeuvrings see figures such as Hashemi Rafsanjani, a bitter rival of Ahmadinejad, rallying opposition to the president in the expediency council and among senior clerics in Qom.
But as McCarthy "rose in politics, he abandoned whatever scruples he may have had and gave in to expediency," Mr. Morgan writes, continuing, "He was like a character in a medieval morality play, fought over by an angel and a devil".
With America needing Central Asian logistical support for its operations in Afghanistan, expediency was understandable.Less understandable is that, in four of the region's five countries (Kyrgyzstan, a struggling democracy, is the exception), American aid budgets are shrinking, including for language training and other education.
In the nearly 34 years since the Islamic revolution in Iran, expediency has been a pillar of decision making, but within a framework that has allowed Iranian leaders to save face.
Mr. Sabry's lawsuit, filed in Cairo Expediency Court on March 1, seeks a court order to mandate "deMubarakization" in one fell swoop.
The Queen's speech was an exercise in political expediency.
