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In regard to accepting refugees, our record is less impressive: Over the last 12 months, the US only resettled1,682 Syrian refugees, far short of what the US is capable of doing. We're not the only laggards in Syria: Qatar and Saudi Arabia, both responsible for arms transfers that increasingly feed the conflict in Syria, have only provided 17 and 6 percent of their fair share of humanitarian assistance, respectively, and are resettling very few if any refugees. Russia is now spending one percent of its fair share. Jordan, on the other hand, is hosting hundreds of thousands of Syrians, and spending $870 million a year on the Syria refugee crisis, which we estimate represents 5,622 percent of its fair share. More than 4 million refugees from Syria are residing in overstretched neighboring countries. The US recently committed to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees, but to pull our weight, our government needs to resettle 10 times that: 100,000 Syrians out of a total of 200,000 refugees should be resettled in the next year. This may seem a big number, and we are proposing it at a time of legitimate security concerns.. But we have systems in place to resettle -- The US and other countries need to prioritize the most acutely vulnerable people such as children and their mothers lacking family support, survivors of torture, and people with serious medical conditions. We estimate that 10 percent of the Syrians outside the country are in this acutely vulnerable category, so a couple thousand won't cut it. The US government must also lead others to bridge the gap in funding to -- + About Our Ads + Contact Us + Archive Copyright ©2016 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. "The Huffington Post" is a registered trademark of TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. 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