Some at last week’s Republican National Convention referred to Afghanistan as President Obama’s war.

It does seem a bit like revisionist history considering that President George W. Bush made the decision to invade Afghanistan following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

We suspect the vast majority of Americans would likely say that decision was the correct one. Afghanistan was where Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist group were based and they were the ones responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11.

We can argue that Bush should have remained committed to the conflict in Afghanistan instead of deciding to invade Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

The involvement of more U.S. troops in Afghanistan from the start might have resulted in the capture or death of bin Laden himself by the end of 2002.

After initial successes in Afghanistan, Bush’s change of focus to Iraq meant that the war in the place where 9/11 was planned became a side show. Iraq received the most U.S. troops and when that country nearly erupted in civil war it became a top priority for the Bush administration and U.S. military.

Afghanistan with its fledgling government and smaller contingent of U.S. troops was left to fend for itself and things deteriorated.

Obama ran for the presidency promising to pull out U.S. forces from both Iraq and Afghanistan. As his first term comes to a close he’s fulfilled half of that promise.

Since Obama’s ascension to the White House, Republicans have been inconsistent on what exactly they’d like him to do about Afghanistan.

It’s clear some Republicans, like Americans in general, would like to see the U.S. pull out, but other members of the GOP realize that a U.S. withdrawal could throw that country back into the same chaos that enabled the Taliban and al-Qaida to take control in the first place.

When former Republican National Committee leader Michael Steele referred to Afghanistan as Obama’s war back in 2010, he was criticized by many Republicans who were not afflicted by whatever short-term memory loss Steele was suffering from.

Fast-forward to the GOP convention last week and it seems that Republicans were either blaming Afghanistan on Obama or not wanting to talk about it at all.

Romney did not mention the conflict during his speech, becoming the first Republican since 1952 to accept his party’s nomination without mentioning war.

But considering the poor condition of the U.S. economy, Romney’s address was likely in line with the priorities of most Americans.

And to be fair, the question of what to do in Afghanistan is difficult.

If the answer were easy we would not have more than 70,000 U.S. troops still there.

One can more accurately blame Obama for many things but pinning Afghanistan on him is at best ignorant of reality.

If Republicans are so eager to pull out U.S. forces from Afghanistan, they should put forth a resolution in Congress demanding that our forces be withdrawn.

The GOP would find plenty of support among congressional Democrats.

With that kind of consensus, we’re sure Obama would sign the orders ASAP to bring our troops home.

But Republicans aren’t going to push for a pullout because it’s clear as mud whether such a move would be in the best interest of our country.

That being said, let’s stop the nonsense of referring to Afghanistan as Obama’s war.

It’s a conflict we as a nation are struggling to deal with and whoever wins the presidency in November will have some extremely difficult decisions to make.