President Obama is reportedly considering releasing several senior Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay as an enticement to get the Taliban to the peace table. If he does so, he will do tremendous harm to American national security — and to his prospects for reelection this fall.

There is cause for celebration in the death of a deeply evil man with much blood on his hands and more innocent deaths in his mind, but no cause to waver in our determination to press forward in this conflict against a determined foe.

The fight against terrorism is no closer to success today than it was a decade ago when, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, President George W. Bush declared a Global War on Terrorism.

The current moment of celebration is thus also a moment of great danger. Not only will all al-Qaeda groups seek revenge for bin Laden's death, but the U.S. and its partners around the world can delude themselves that the war is over.But the war will not be over, because the remaining al-Qaeda leaders and their various franchisees around the world continue to seek our destruction.

The mullahs must be asking themselves what they have done to incur the Divine wrath.

Ayman Zawahiri recently wrote to Abu Musab Zarqawi criticizing Iraqi Shiites as having always cooperated with "the enemies of Islam."

If we continue on this "easy" path, we will only guarantee that Abu Musab al Zarqawi's name will endure.

It didn"t take long for the yackers and scribblers to start pooh-poohing the significance of the elimination of Zarqawi.