Mr. Haass's statement departed from the usual custom in the politics of Northern Ireland of avoiding assigning responsibility for breakdowns in peace negotiations to one side or the other.
The White House might also publicly assign responsibility for the breakdown, not sparing Israel for its role.
For them, the removal of blame from the business of divorce is tantamount to removing responsibility for relationship breakdown.
The lecture was titled "Group Think, Personal Responsibility and the Breakdown of Moral Order: The Crisis at Penn State".
The stand-off will start tomorrow with an attack on the erosion of parental responsibility and the breakdown of society.
A scathing report released yesterday by a special committee of Enron's board said that Mr. Lay bore "significant responsibility" for the breakdown of controls and ethics at the company.
Diouf must take some responsibility for the breakdown in the relationship between the owner, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, and coach, Eric Gerets, who was on the verge of tears after his final game.
But some political parties that were banned when General Musharraf took power in a 1999 coup said today that Pakistan's military government bore primary responsibility for the breakdown in security.
It contended that the real responsibility for the breakdown in the peace plan lay with Britain and the pro-British Ulster Unionist Party, who, it said, have "no desire to deal with the issue of arms except on their terms".
Responsibility for the breakdown of the deal on the Western Wall, in fact, lies with Israel's secular establishment, which has long neglected to resolve its disagreements with the religious conservatives.
But Mr. Maliki also bears responsibility for the breakdown: By persecuting the Sunni and Kurdish communities and undermining institutions such as the parliament and courts, he has done much to polarize his country.
