One Guy's Moving Chess Pieces: Smokey lines up his troops, including Ben?

As we heard from Dogen yesterday, Sayid has been "claimed" by some sort of creeping "infection."
What is this infection? The pathogen isnt a flu bug- it's Smokey tagging his army.

Here's the theory:
There is a war brewing. I know it has to be true because Widmore said so. So who's fighting? Gotta be Jacob's team (Jacobins?) versus Smokey's team. That's right. Sayid has been claimed by Smokey- just like Ekos' brother, Claire, Locke, Christian Shephard, Alex, (wither Rousseau?) and yes, maybe even Ben....back to that in a second.

Theory: Smokey has the ability to re-animate dead people. Last episode basically proved this pretty conclusively. So, is smokey responsible for all of the odd things on the island- Eko's brother, Locke's father, Alex's appearance. I'd say so...

So back to Ben. He appeared to be on the side of the island. When Sayid shot Ben and Ben was brought to the Others, it was mentioned that Widmore objected to Ben's joining the others for medical treatment, but Alpert mentioned that Jacob wanted Ben to be fixed. So was he on a list? Maybe. But whose team is Ben on?

He professed to serve Jacob, but had never seen him. Alpert handed him lists. As we saw in the conclusion of season 5, Ben had some abandonment issues that he probably was transferring from his father to Jacob and when he was given a chance, you could say, he acted out a bit. But is this just Ben experiencing a delayed response to Roger Workman's malfeasance? Maybe Ben hasn't let on to what his real deal is...

Recall- when Keamy executed Alex Rousseau after Ben wouldn't come out and play, what did Ben do? He disappeared into his Brooks Brothers inspired secret closet and apparently summoned Smokey. How does a follower of Jacob get Smokey just to show up? Did he make a deal to change teams? Maybe he knows the secret Smokey handshake because...he's already on the team. Hm.

Or did Ben simply offer Smokey a trade? Claire in exchange for Smokey taking out Keamy and his boys? Recall from Something Nice Back Home when Ben summoned Smokey:

Some time later (after dark), Sawyer is shouting and beating on the blast door that closed behind Ben as he went into his secret room, when Claire emerges from another room carrying Aaron and asks "What's going on?". Sawyer asks Claire "You all right, sweetheart?" and she tells him "Yeah, a bit wobbly, but, uh, I'll live." to which Miles replies "Well, I wouldn't be too sure about that." I get the feeling we wont truly get our answer until we get a Miles-centric episode....


So... how do the teams line up?

Team Smokey:
Eko, Eko's Brother, Alex Rousseau, Rousseau, Sayid, Nikki, Paulo (ug, sorry, I know....me too, but Smokey did in fact lead to Nikki's demise), Boone, and pretty much anyone else who died on the island is in play...

Team Others:
The Others, and the rest of the castaways.


Is there more? Is this too simplistic? Let me know
-Drew