An external enemy is created and blame transferred, thus avoiding that otherwise necessary hard work of change.
Jacintha Saldanha, 46, a night sister at the King Edward VII hospital, London, where the Duchess of Cambridge was admitted for acute morning sickness, believed she should take the blame for transferring the hoax call to a colleague treating the duchess.
"He said, 'I have never been there in my life.' " A European confidante of Dr. Khan's, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Pakistani scientist put the blame for transfers on a Middle Eastern businessman who he said was supplying Pakistan with centrifuge parts and, on his own, double-ordered the same components to sell to Iran.
Later on, British media blame also transferred towards Galatasaray fans.
Bettison denied that his role in an internal inquiry team from South Yorkshire police was to foment black propaganda and transfer blame for the tragedy on to the fans.
Yet many analysts suggested that the deal was meant to transfer blame for the conflict to the West, while derailing sanctions that had appeared possible within weeks.
"Jaywalking," she writes, "was once a semi-derogatory term referring to country bumpkins, or 'jays,' who inefficiently meandered around American cities; by the 1920s, the term was being used to transfer blame for accidents from motorists to pedestrians".
The game played lately at Enron is to transfer blame like a hot potato.
Attributing HIV symptoms to witchcraft seemed an effective mechanism to transfer "blame" from the family unit to an external force but could lead to treatment interruption.
Transferring blame for continued violence to infiltrators from Pakistan is unfair.
