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.

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.

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.

If we deprive the terrorists of Iraqi support, they will spend more time in the other havens, counting on the assistance of the remaining terror masters.

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

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

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

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