Summary: A U.S. military commander in southern Helmand province reportedly told Afghanistan’s TOLOnews that the Afghan war is like a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon that never ends, the only difference being that the cartoon, unlike the war, does not claim actual lives. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on January 4, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the suicide bombing on a CIA base in Afghanistan was carried out by a Jordanian doctor, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who was an al-Qaida double agent.