Your point about the U.S. supporting the Islamists against the Communists when the Communists were the enemy and supporting the Communists against the Islamists now that Islam is the enemy, overlooks the very large numbers of Islamic groups we do support.

Note, the U.S. supports Islamic regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Afgahnistan, not to mention Kuait, Dubai, Egypt, and the Non Hamas branch of the Palestinian Government.

In fact what you see mostly with regard to U.S. policy isn't an opposition to Islam, but an opposition to those who upset the applecart. Those without a global view of the powers that be, and the necessity of dealing with agents like the Sudi's and the Chinese to further peace and prosperity such as it is across the globe.

Resorting to the us vs them racism analysis is just lazy. Even the Nazi's were more motivated by money, trade and power than they were their tired eugenic philosophies.

To see the world in terms of base racism is to overlook the cause of racism, and the true motivations of those in power. There are those who for various ends have likely fostered islamophobic ideas for their own political agenda. Those ends however do not extend to our foreign policy where such grade school games interfer with the larger context of our mechenations.

We aren't at war with Islam, because there are many Muslims who happily and readily do business with the U.S. We are at war with those whose own agendas require opposition to the U.S. and it's policies regardless of what their motivating philosophy is. There are a number of opponents who are also muslims, but we likewise still have issues with secular insurgents in south america as you may have recently noticed.

Interesting point about the Honduran insurgency by the way, we largely agree with policies of the new regime, but oppose their seizing of power so as not to cause more upsetting of applecarts that might be less beneficial to the U.S. as a whole.

Order and the flow of trade is our motivation in our choosing of allies and enemies, and if you see it terms of race, religion or some other blanket idea, you will be wrong.

Quite the opposite, the many U.S. citizens and occasional lone politicians who tout any protest as the beginings of revolution in their enemies camps often have a very limited view of the facts on the ground.

Which is largely why such protest movements receive praise and little else from the powers of the United States.

Even if we armed Uighurs in support of their revolution, this would not likely result in their ultimate freedom, nor freedom for the Chinese people as a whole.

In general the powers of the state see openess and trade with such regimes as the most effective method of regime change, even though such change as you say can take centuries to complete.

The idea that the Uighurs are less supported by the U.S. because of thier religion overlooks the very real on the ground realities of their position in china, the viability of their movement, and the U.S.'s general relationship with China.

The U.S. government would like to see the Uighurs not oppressed, just as the U.S. government would like to see the Tibetans and the Catholics in China not oppressed. In truth the U.s. goverenment would like to see the Chinese people as a whole not oppressed. But to see such change take place, does not require loud rhetoric or forceful action, but a slow and steady erroding of the walls that seperate people from information and prosperity. The U.S. does not have the ability to change to China by force, but we have learned since Tienamen, that China is open to change, if they think it is there idea from the start.

Tienamen wasn't an insurgency, just a protest, much like the protests of the Uighurs, and the protests of the Iranian democracy activists. It is the hope of American's however that such protests properly fostered will become an insurgency to effect regime change (peacefully or otherwise) in these totalitarian countries.

In all cases however, the support of the U.S. for the protesters goes little beyond kind words and hope, as the real world political necessities of the situation often make anything more counter productive.

Every single Chinese Catholic and Tibetan Buddhist captured in Afghanistan who had trained with the Taliban were sent to gitmo.

If you know of any Chinese Catholics or Tibetan Buddhists who were captured in Afghanistan and trained with the Taliban who weren't sent to gitmo, I would be happy to receive information on this inequality.