The research presented in The Heritage Foundation's Guantanamo Bay collection clearly indicates that Congress should not interfere with the U.S. military's policy of detaining unlawful alien enemycombatants at Guantanamo Bay. The United States is engaged in anongoing armed conflict against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan andtherefore has no obligation-legal, moral, or otherwise-to releasecaptured enemy soldiers so that they may return to the battlefield.Short-sighted legislation extending unprecedented rights to foreignterrorists and other enemy combatants undermines U.S. troopsdeployed in the field in Afghanistan and Iraq. These detaineesshould not be released until the cessation of hostilities inAfghanistan and elsewhere.