"We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny"
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Then he shifts from war talk to apocalyptic imagery. “Fires” is doing heavy lifting: it’s visceral, contagious, and harder to contain than armies. Fire spreads; it also purifies. That metaphor smuggles in a promise and a justification at once, presenting escalation as both inevitable and righteous. The line “The battle has begun” is less literal chronology than recruitment logic: it reframes the present as an opening act, a moment demanding loyalty and endurance.
The White House appears not as a building but as an emblematic target, “the center of injustice and tyranny.” That’s classic insurgent rhetoric: personalize an abstract superpower into a single address, then moralize it. It’s strategic propaganda aimed at multiple audiences. To supporters, it offers cosmic validation and momentum; to enemies, it aims to project reach and inevitability. Subtextually, it also borrows the language of anti-imperial critique, rebranding violence as resistance against “tyranny,” while sidestepping the messy reality that “justice” in this framing is defined by the speaker’s authority.
In context, the quote reads like a bid to keep the struggle coherent as Afghanistan becomes a proxy for a broader confrontation with U.S. power. The point isn’t prediction; it’s permission.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Omar, Mohammed. (2026, January 16). We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-dont-consider-the-battle-has-ended-in-122181/
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Omar, Mohammed. "We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-dont-consider-the-battle-has-ended-in-122181/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-dont-consider-the-battle-has-ended-in-122181/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.




