"The very thought that one man now out of all of those involved - from politicians to generals to soldiers on the ground and of course those people who were provoking the situation on the other side - only one man is being held culpable for everything that happened pretty much.
Whitman had more than one predecessor to blame: Léo Apotheker was culpable for sins that we'll review in a moment; Mark Hurd for acquiring EDS for $13.9bn, for starving R&D down to less than 2.5% of revenue, and for the ill-fated $1.2bn Palm acquisition.
You could say that, at that point, we were all culpable for not insisting that the rumours that swirled around Savile should be investigated more fully.
The Bush administration has left no doubt that it considers Mr. Arafat primarily culpable for the violence that has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians and Israelis in the last 15 months.
The Trump campaign would counter that the Benghazi case against Clinton is hardly irrational, insisting that the soldiers who might have protected those US diplomats in danger were ordered instead to "stand down" – a decision that, they argue, makes Clinton culpable for the deaths that followed.
The defense seemed to be suggesting that Mr. Taubman should not be culpable for a scheme that didn't take hold.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, and others are sponsoring a bipartisan bill that would make it clear that immunity should not apply in cases where nations are found culpable for terrorist attacks that kill Americans on American soil.
"Many pilots feel the training was inadequate, and therefore it appears to me that Boeing, the F.A.A., the airline training centers and possibly the unions themselves are culpable for the incident that happened," he said.
Does Thomas Friedman really believe that Obama is equally culpable for the fact that we aren't, say, well into a long-term investment in high-speed rail, for instance?
