Part X
Nolte's description of Bolshevik terror as
Asiatic
is not mere hyperbole, or Eurocentric parochialism, rather it is a historically honest accounting for the discrepancy of the 'way of war' within the Western civilization as compared to without. The exercise of unrestrained malice between two combatants within the Western culture was always, with one notable exception prior to 1941, was understood to be outside the proper domain of war and peace. Warfare between White/Western countries was understood to be power activity and nothing more. During and after the cessation of hostilities it was understood that combatants would not avail one another to unbridled brutality, not would the victor opt to massacre, humiliate or destroy his vanquished enemies. In these processes it is clear that the essence of racial Patriotism remained intact, even in the most vigorously tense circumstances of warfare. The English government, notably, when at war with Napoleon, notified him of a plot against his life. King Richard, though in combat with the Oriental Saracens, nonetheless afforded Saladin his friendship out of esteem for the warrior virtue exemplified by the Moslem warlord and his men. When the gentleman aristocrat Robert E. Lee surrendered the Grant, known as a brutish and ruthless warrior on the battlefield, he noted that his enemy was a magnanimous and noble victor with no personal taste for vengance to be delivered upon the cessation of hostilities.
However, in circumstances of total enmity between countries of the Western culture and those outside of it, there has never existed a generalized and robust tradition of limited war and amity between combatants. For example, as Yockey noted, in Gothic times, the Roman Church forbade the use of the crossbow against White, Christian peoples but sanctioned its use freely against the barbarian outsider. The White men who, in waging racial war against Techumseh's Red Sticks, did not hesitate to summarily execute the enemy Braves. Nor did the Spanish courts martial who sat in judgment of Incan warriors and sentenced them to death believe that they should afford to the savages the same privileges that White men would extend to one another at war or in its aftermath, pursuant to the 'honor community' of the Western culture.