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−	An Iraqi official recently told me this story: When the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, took over Mosul in the summer, the Sunni jihadist fighters in ISIS, many of whom were foreigners, went house to house. On the homes of Christians they marked "Nassarah," an archaic Arabic term for Christians. But on the homes of Shiites they marked "Rafidha," which means "those who reject" the Sunni line of authority as to who should be caliph, or leader of the Muslim community, after the death of the Prophet Muhammad.	+	He was then asked if rookies  and  will figure prominently in the game plan. "Oh yeah," he answered. "We'll have a six-man rotation and roll them in and out."
−	But here's what was interesting, the Iraqi official said, the term "Rafidha" was largely unknown in Iraq to describe Shiites. It is a term used by Wahhabi fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia. "We did not know this word," he told me. "This is not an Iraqi term."	+
−	I was intrigued by this story because it highlighted the degree to which ISIS operates just like an "invasive species" in the world of plants and animals. It is not native to either the Iraqi or Syrian ecosystems. It never before grew in their landscapes.	+	That rotation would appear to be veterans Rucker and Stinson, , rookies Martin and Stinson, and then probably , although as he has gotten very little playing time recently, perhaps that could be .
−	Bleak, dark and jihadist	+
−	I find it useful at times to use the natural world to illuminate trends in geopolitics and globalization, and this is one of them. The United States National Arboretum website notes that "invasive plant species thrive where the continuity of a natural ecosystem is breached and are abundant on disturbed sites like construction areas and road cuts. In some situations these nonnative species cause serious ecological disturbances. In the worst cases, invasive plants ruthlessly choke out other plant life. This puts extreme pressure on native plants and animals, and threatened species may succumb to this pressure. Ultimately, invasive plants alter habitats and reduce biodiversity."	+	In any case, this is a big opportunity for guys like Stinson and Martin.
−	I can't think of a better way to understand ISIS. It is a coalition. One part consists of Sunni Muslim jihadist fighters from all over the world: Chechnya, Libya, Britain, France, Australia and especially Saudi Arabia. They spread so far, so fast, despite their relatively small numbers, because the disturbed Iraqi and Syrian societies enabled these foreign jihadists to forge alliances with secular, native-born, Iraqi and Syrian Sunni tribesmen and former Baathist army officers, whose grievances were less religious and more about how Iraq and Syria were governed.	+
−	Today, ISIS -- the foreigners and locals together -- is putting pressure on all of Iraq's and Syria's native species with the avowed goal of reducing the diversity of these once polycultural societies and turning them into bleak, dark, jihadist, Sunni fundamentalist monocultures.	+	Tommy Kelly said "the young guys just need to step up and take advantage of the opportunity" and noted, "if you don't take advantage of it, they're going to bring someone else in and get the job done."
−	It is easy to see how ISIS spread. Think about the life of a 50-year-old Iraqi Sunni man from Mosul.	+
−	He first got drafted to fight in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that ended in 1988.	+	That's how he got his start. "I just grabbed it and ran with it," he said. "I ain't looked back since."
−	Then he had to fight in the first Persian Gulf War after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.	+
−	Then he lived under a decade of U.N. sanctions that broke Iraq's middle class.	+	Kelly joked about the number of snaps he was out there against Denver. He played 68 snaps. "Trust me, I would love not to play 60, but you gotta do what you gotta do to help the team at that point of time," he said.
−	Then he had to endure the years of chaos that followed the U.S. invasion, which ended with a corrupt, brutal, pro-Iranian Shiite regime in Baghdad led by Nouri al-Maliki that did all it could to keep Sunnis poor and powerless.	+
−	This was the fractured political ecosystem in which ISIS found fertile ground.	+	The young guys should be able to help there. Because of their youth, "(they) should be able to play all day anyway."
−	How do you deal with an invasive species?	+
−	The National Arboretum says you should "use systemic herbicides carefully" (President Barack Obama's air war), while also constantly working to strengthen and "preserve healthy native plant habitats" (Obama's effort to forge a national unity government in Baghdad with Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds together).	+	The key is knowing the defense so they can "just go 100 miles an hour without thinking."
−	Generally speaking, though, over the years in Iraq and Afghanistan we have overspent on herbicides (guns and training) and underinvested in the best bulwark against invasive species (noncorrupt, just governance). We should be pressing the Iraqi government, which is rich with cash, to focus on delivering to every Iraqi still under its control 24 hours of electricity a day, a job, better schools, more personal security and a sense that no matter what sect they're from the game is not rigged against them and their voice will count. That is how you strengthen an ecosystem against invasive species.	+
−	Lesser to two evils	+	How will the rotation play out?
−	"It was misgovernance which drove Iraqis to contemplate a relationship with ISIS with the view that it was less detrimental to their interests than their own (Shiite-led) government," explained Sarah Chayes, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment who is a former U.S. adviser in Afghanistan and author of the upcoming "Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security." The Iraqi army we built was seen by many Iraqi Sunnis "as the enforcer of a kleptocratic network." That army got "sucked dry by the cronies of Maliki so it became a hollow shell that couldn't withstand the first bullet."	+
−	The goal of ISIS now is to draw us in, get us to bomb Sunni towns and drive the non-ISIS Sunnis away from America and closer to ISIS, "because," notes Chayes, "ISIS knows it can't survive without the support of these non-ISIS Sunnis."	+	Kelly played a handful of snaps on the right side of the defensive line after Campbell got hurt, but then it was Rucker that got most of the time on that side. Kelly played much more on the left side. Both of the veterans can play either side, but Kelly is more comfortable on the left.
−	We always overestimate military training and force and underestimate what Arabs and Afghans want most: decent and just governance. Without the latter, there is no way to cultivate real citizens with a will to fight -- and without will there is no training that matters.	+
−	Ask any general -- or gardener.	+	Kelly, Dan Williams and Rucker will likely be the starters. Stinson has only played the left side and Martin has only played the right. Williams has gotten snaps on either side when they take out the nose tackle in nickel and dime sets. Ta'amu will probably get a handful of snaps at nose tackle in base sets.
−	Thomas L. Friedman is a columnist for The New York Times, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018.<p>Related Articles:</p><ul><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Louis Vuitton Speedy Round</a></li><li></li><li></li></ul>	+
		+	The defense is still confident despite allowing over 500 yards of offense to the last week.
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		+	"We should be confident," said Kelly. "We've got a good defense. We had a bad day against a Hall of Famer. We'll be all right. If it was a bum out there and did that, it'd be different, but we got ."
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		+	Kelly knows Washington will provide a challenge, but he knows the defense is ready. "(Washington's) got a good offense, but we've faced some really, really good offenses -- San Diego, the got hot, Frisco," he said. "It isn't like we've had some cupcakes."
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		+	So, in addition to the vets in Rucker and Kelly, they will need to lean on their young guys to "keep (the defense) afloat" until Calais Campbell and return. That depth will make them even better.<p>Related Articles:</p><ul><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com>Acheter louis vuitton</a></li><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com/26-voyage-louis-vuitton>Voyage Louis Vuitton</a></li><li><a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com/28-portefeuille-louis-vuitton>Portefeuille Louis Vuitton</a></li></ul>

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Revision as of 14:58, 30 October 2014

He was then asked if rookies and will figure prominently in the game plan. "Oh yeah," he answered. "We'll have a six-man rotation and roll them in and out."

That rotation would appear to be veterans Rucker and Stinson, , rookies Martin and Stinson, and then probably , although as he has gotten very little playing time recently, perhaps that could be .

In any case, this is a big opportunity for guys like Stinson and Martin.

Tommy Kelly said "the young guys just need to step up and take advantage of the opportunity" and noted, "if you don't take advantage of it, they're going to bring someone else in and get the job done."

That's how he got his start. "I just grabbed it and ran with it," he said. "I ain't looked back since."

Kelly joked about the number of snaps he was out there against Denver. He played 68 snaps. "Trust me, I would love not to play 60, but you gotta do what you gotta do to help the team at that point of time," he said.

The young guys should be able to help there. Because of their youth, "(they) should be able to play all day anyway."

The key is knowing the defense so they can "just go 100 miles an hour without thinking."

How will the rotation play out?

Kelly played a handful of snaps on the right side of the defensive line after Campbell got hurt, but then it was Rucker that got most of the time on that side. Kelly played much more on the left side. Both of the veterans can play either side, but Kelly is more comfortable on the left.

Kelly, Dan Williams and Rucker will likely be the starters. Stinson has only played the left side and Martin has only played the right. Williams has gotten snaps on either side when they take out the nose tackle in nickel and dime sets. Ta'amu will probably get a handful of snaps at nose tackle in base sets.

The defense is still confident despite allowing over 500 yards of offense to the last week.

"We should be confident," said Kelly. "We've got a good defense. We had a bad day against a Hall of Famer. We'll be all right. If it was a bum out there and did that, it'd be different, but we got ."

Kelly knows Washington will provide a challenge, but he knows the defense is ready. "(Washington's) got a good offense, but we've faced some really, really good offenses -- San Diego, the got hot, Frisco," he said. "It isn't like we've had some cupcakes."

So, in addition to the vets in Rucker and Kelly, they will need to lean on their young guys to "keep (the defense) afloat" until Calais Campbell and return. That depth will make them even better.

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