"if what You are attempting here are the supposed ideas of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln..."
WASHINGTON -
"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in the exclusion of religious principle…"
"You do well to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention."
"The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor so to live as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country."
JEFFERSON -
"The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral precepts of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in his discourses."
"A nation that expects to be ignorant -and free- …it expects what never was and never will be."
LINCOLN -
"This nation can never be conquered from without. If it is ever to fall it will be from within."
"Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."
"Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong."
...unless I'm missing something, attempting their ideas is exactly what he's NOT doing.
And speaking in regards to public sentiment, have there been any recent polls/surveys taken in regards to Kosovo recently? It seems more people realize what is actually going on there, but I wonder where the majority currently sides.