As an example of how fake news sneaks up on the public — in his column (April 8) Marc Thiessen stated that President Barack Obama caused the problems in Syria by not leaving a larger force in Iraq before pulling out. I accepted that until I remembered that Obama was following an agreed-upon target date, made by former President George Bush. Obama, at his generals’ behest, tried to leave a much larger group — 10,000 troops — but Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki said no way, just leave.

Thiessen shouldn’t worry. Don Trump will find something else to blame on Obama — Trump always does.

Rudolph Ziehm, Sabattus