The amount spent on the bombs ($22k) or missiles ($110k) used to [possibly] kill enemy targets could rather easily pay to accommodate a few refugees long enough for them to either assimilate and find jobs or wait out the crisis and return home.<p>All it takes is a commitment to finally throttle the military materiel manufacturing economy--that was ramped up during World War 2--back to a peacetime proportion of the budget.<p>As it is now, the U.S. has to continually go out and look for new conflicts, and beat loudly the drums of war, to justify that high level of military spending.  We have been waiting a <i>long</i> time to beat those swords back into plowshares, and they just keep making more swords.<p>I think that the entire quota of 70k refugees can be adequately provided for in less than one month just by taking the buildings on a bare handful of shuttered military bases out of mothballs.<p>We <i>can</i> accommodate millions more, <i>and</i> take care of the poor people that are already here.  Our elected politicians prevent such occurrences using the flimsiest of justifications.