Faced with our collective heartbreak over the loss of yet another hero, we Americans will blame it on the man rather than ourselves.
Police have been cleared of blame over the death of a man who took his own life at Gatwick Airport station.
Perhaps the most obvious man the US will be looking to blame is the Saudi-born millionaire Osama Bin Laden, now in hiding in Afghanistan.
Can a man publish his opinion, backed by statistics, regarding women without being required to have a counterpoint, supported only by a woman's anecdotal evidence and typical "perhaps the man is to blame" mentality?
James Kelbie, the man Cumming tried to blame for the stabbing, attempted to separate the struggling pair.
Second, no one man deserves all the blame for Labour being so much slower than the electorate to accept in the 1970s and 1980s that its policies of public ownership and high taxation had turned into an abject failure.
Despite its inherent illogic, the notion that last week's massive, cascading electrical blackout was a "wake-up" call seems now to have become as much a part of the political landscape as has the effort to assign blame for this costly man-made disaster.
There were some brilliant catches, notably by Sales in the slips to dismiss Alex Gidman and White at square leg to send back last man Steve Kirby, but the home side only had themselves to blame for a series of poor strokes.
To blame a committee (the Security Council) that is nominally the ultimate authority and not the man charged with managing the organisation is disingenuous.
The state attorney-general, Charlie Condon, a man said to have his sights on higher office, takes most of the blame, or the credit, for the zeal of the police.
An Egyptian man dragged naked through the streets of Cairo by police has admitted security forces were to blame, after earlier blaming protesters.
BBC: Cairo police beating: Victim Hamada Saber blames police
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