is logically the same as:
"... we must look at the reasons why the man raped you, young lady. Perhaps your clothes were too provocative or perhaps you flirted too much, as clearly the rapist is innocent of his crime because you forced him to engage in such behavior."
That's called "blaming the victim." The U.S. isn't guilty of the WTC/Pentagon/Pennsylvania terrorist attacks, the terrorists are. However, the moral relativists left in the world want to blame us, the victims of those attacks, rather than those who perpetrated the attacks.
And that's precisely the same as blaming the girl for getting raped instead of blaming the rapist. Such fool-headed thinking has dominated Left-Wing universities for almost 30 years, too.