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U.S. Senate majority leader calls for efforts to bring Taliban into Afghan government

"You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government," Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. "And if that's accomplished we'll be successful." He said the only way to win in places like Qalat is to "assimilate people who call themselves Taliban into a larger, more representative government." "Approaching counterinsurgency by winning hearts and minds will ultimately be the answer," Frist said. "Military versus insurgency one-to-one doesn't sound like it can be won. It sounds to me ... that the Taliban is everywhere."

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