Jordan 4 Sandals-- The New York Islanders fulfilled a need by adding rugged forward Cal Clutterbuck in a trade with the Minnesota Wild and unloaded a bit of a headache in the process.

New York and Minnesota worked out a deal Sunday early in the NHL draft that sent Clutterbuck and a third-round pick to the Islanders for fellow forward Nino Niederreiter, the No. 5 overall pick in the 2010 draft.

Things soured between the 20-year-old Niederreiter and the Islanders when he asked to be traded. He had a solid year in the AHL but wasn't on New York's postseason roster when the Islanders were eliminated by Pittsburgh in the first round. Niederreiter also wasn't invited to training camp last season.

New York general manager Garth Snow denied that a rift existed, from his point of view, with Niederreiter.

''For us, no,'' he said tersely. ''Whenever you have a good young player it is always tough to make a deal. For us, if we didn't get Cal in return, it isn't something we would have considered. We got a quality player that is going to be inserted into our lineup and help our team win.''

Niederreiter has two goals in 64 career NHL games.

''It was an opportunity to get a quality player that fills a need that we have,'' Snow said. ''We gave up a former first-round pick. You have to give up something to get something, and we did that.''

The deal was made during the draft Sunday, shortly before New York selected defenseman Ryan Pulock with the 15th selection.

The 25-year-old Clutterbuck was due to be a restricted free agent in five days.

Clutterbuck was always among the league's leaders in hits. He is an intense player who for a while gave the Wild decent production on the third line. He had 19 goals and 15 assists in the 2010-11 season, but following the lockout this year, he scored only four goals in 42 games.

Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher said his club was interested in Niederreiter three years ago, but he was off the board well before Minnesota could grab him. Fletcher wasn't concerned at all about how Niederreiter would fit in now following a change of scenery.

''We have done a lot of homework on him over the years. We did a ton of homework on him leading up to the 2010 draft,'' Fletcher said. ''There were no red flags from our perspective. At the end of the day, he is a 20-year-old player, and like every 20-year-old kid, maybe he made a couple of decisions that five, 10 years later you look back and say, 'Why did I do that?' - like the rest of us.

''He will certainly have a clean slate with us. His size and scoring ability are two ingredients that we can certainly use.''

The Islanders will be counting on Clutterbuck to add a different dimension to their club. Fletcher said he wouldn't have dealt him to any Western Conference rival.

''We got a good young player that is established in the NHL,'' Snow said. ''We love the element of grit. He has had success of putting the puck in the net and creating offense. For us, it is immediate help, and we are happy about the trade.''

Snow also spoke well of Pulock, a 19-year-old defenseman from Brandon of the Western Hockey League, who 14 goals and 31 assists in 61 games last season.

''Good young defenseman who can create offense,'' Snow said. ''He plays the game the right way. Plays hard in front of his net. We just really love his offensive flair. He is going to be a good young defenseman for us.''

Of the Islanders' seven picks Sunday, three are forwards, two are defensemen and two are goalies. They had a long wait between taking Pulock and then grabbing goalie Eamon McAdam at No. 70 and Taylor Cammarata six picks later. Both American players came from Waterloo out of the USHL.

McAdam was 17-9-3 with a 3.45 goals-against average and an .896 save percentage. His Waterloo teammate Cammarata led the team with 93 points, including 38 goals in 59 games, this past season.

The Islanders took goalie Stephon Williams from Minnesota State-Mankato in the fourth round, and chose Swedish forward Viktor Crus in the fifth round.

Alan Quine, a center who had 23 goals and 67 points last season in the Ontario Hockey League, was taken in the sixth round with pick No. 166. New York then took defenseman Kyle Burroughs in the seventh and final round. The Vancouver native had 33 points in 70 Western Hockey League games with Regina Pats.

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The Heat are in need of front-line help and, considering Oden's injury history, taking a shot on him could be risk-reward. Oden, 25, has been working out and says his knees are healed from microfracture surgery. "The Heat need some size, that's not a secret," Oden's agent, Mike Conley, said. "Whether it's in a backup role or whatever, he could help them. I know they're interested in him and he's interested in them." In his final, abbreviated season with Portland, Oden averaged 11.1 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.3 blocked shots playing 23.9 minutes per game. Several other teams have shown interested in Oden, a former college teammate of Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley Jr.

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A Marine offered a tactical suggestion, one that made perfect sense to the Americans but not to the Afghans. Daly, then a Marine captain, says an "old" Afghan major looked at him and said: "You think you have been here 10 years, but you have really only been here one year, 10 times."

For Daly, the major had perfectly encapsulated a quote often attributed, but probably wrongly, to Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin or Mark Twain: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

“He was right,” Daly writes in a first-person perspective on Yahoo News this week, “We were doing the same things there over and over with the same results. Instead of building on the experiences and lessons learned from each year, we failed to understand their point of view.”

David Daly as a contractor in Afghanistan (Photo courtesy of David Daly)

That point of view, he says, includes bearing the strain of seemingly endless conflict, the last 12 years of which fell under American watch. “Now is the time for [Afghanistan] to rest,” he says.

The U.S. announced this week it wants to engage the Taliban in talks in Doha, Qatar, and Daly says he’s hopeful for change but pessimistic they will result in anything fruitful. The former Marine and contractor is one of several Americans—former and current service members, civilian workers and journalists—who shared their insights with Yahoo News on whether the U.S., the Taliban, Afghanistan’s government and even the Pakistanis can create peace.

“If history repeats itself, this will not be the case,” Daly says.

Daly, who served in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011 and also deployed to Iraq four times, stresses that fault lies everywhere. It’s not just an American presence, he says, that endangers a chance for peace. “I believe, from what I have seen and been told, that the Taliban are terrorists," Daly says. "I believe they have caused a great deal of suffering in Afghanistan. I believe that the God-given freedoms every man, woman and child deserves have been suppressed by the Taliban.”

But, he says, the Taliban doesn’t believe that—and that perspective could hamper any chance at detente.

“I hope peace talks can bring an end to this war,” Daly continues. “But I believe we will enter the talks thinking we have 12 years of experience, yet be seen with only one year's worth, 12 times.”

Jonathan Raab, second from left, with ANP and U.S. Army soldiers in 2008 (Photo courtesy of Jonathan Raab)

If the Taliban are willing to talk, perhaps we should, too

Jonathan Raab, a U.S. Army infantryman who served in Afghanistan’s Logar Province in 2007 and 2008, thinks negotiations are necessary after years of cat-and-mouse stalemates against the Taliban.

Raab remembers spending a week hunting Taliban members who had defeated a small U.S. force and taken their weapons, equipment and the bodies of two dead soldiers. Raab and his team scoured the area for the Taliban but failed to find them. When U.S. forces cleared a village, the Taliban would vanish into the population. While American soldiers owned the day, the Taliban would return at night. They sat back, Raab says, and watched American soldiers exhaust themselves.

“The Taliban were then—as they are now—resourceful, cunning and often invisible,” Raab says, and that’s emblematic of the challenges the U.S. faces in negotiations.

“Since we are not willing to commit to win the war, perhaps it's better that we negotiate,” Raab adds. “In the summer of 2008, the average Afghan citizen saw our big operation through Logar Province as a show of force that ultimately proved fruitless. In the summer of 2013, I suspect the average Afghan—and the Taliban themselves—sees our military might as irrelevant.”

The key to talks, Raab argues, is understanding the nuances among the Taliban. He recalls: “One village elder once told my commanding officer, ‘There are good Taliban and bad Taliban. We want to get rid of the bad Taliban.’ A farmer who helps dig a hole for an IED to help feed his family is not a hard-core jihadist; a young boy forced to carry an AK-47 at night probably isn't mainline Taliban, either.”

Andrew Lubin on assignment a few miles outside Asadabad, Afghanistan (Photo courtesy of Andrew Lubin)

Taliban are too intertwined in Afghanistan to ignore

Andrew Lubin agrees with Raab that one cannot generalize about the Taliban. Negotiating means knowing with whom you are talking. There are “Big T” Taliban—some “very bad guys,” he says, who are affiliated with the group’s spiritual leader, Mullah Omar. Then there are the “little t” Taliban—everyday Afghans who have sided at times with the group because it meant money, food or security.

Lubin, a freelance combat journalist and defense analyst who was embedded seven times since 2007 with U.S. Marines in Helmand Province, says he repeatedly encountered farmers in Afghanistan who willingly tossed aside their AK-47s because better opportunities arose. This happened in part, he says, because of Operation Khanjar, a July 2009 effort that drove the Taliban out of villages in the Helmand River Valley and then allowed some of them to peacefully return.

“The Taliban have proven to be the brothers, sons and cousins of those Afghans who favor us,” Lubin says. “They range from conservative Muslims—whom the people find acceptable—to extremists—who are not. But regardless, they are a part of the Afghan social structure and need to be recognized accordingly.”

The U.S. Marines understood this in 2009, Lubin argues, so the U.S. government needs to recognize this as it enters talks. After decades of war, Afghanistan’s citizens desire peace, he says, and if Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government is unable to foster it (and provide basic services) then the extremist Taliban gain strength.

Karzai’s term expires next year, and Lubin says his replacement "is an open question. But long after the politicians in Kabul come and go, the Taliban's adhering to the tenets of Islam make them a substantial part of the Afghan social tapestry, and it's essential that the U.S. and Taliban begin a substantive discussion about the country's future.”

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