What should the United States do about the Syrian refugee crisis?

[politicus]

LOL, no. How the hell would we benefit?!

I would accept a very limited number (with the number that Obama has proposed being tops) with preference given to people who have college degrees.

A bit surprised by that coming from you. Could you elaborate. IIRC you are generally pro-immigration.

[politicus]

Here's the current policy disclaimer:

http://www.state.gov/j/prm/ra/receptionplacement/index.htm

The policy seems reasonable already.

The cap for all refugees is currently 70 thousand per year.  We could raise that cap, and probably should, to maybe 100 thousand, but Syrians should not be more than half of that.  We do have moral commitments to other refugees.  

As an aside, what Germany is doing makes sense for them.  It's like that Star Trek episode where one group has knowledge, high technology, libraries, and a well-developed economy but cannot have proper children because their DNA has atrophied.  The other group is poor, but are healthy and they can have healthy children.  They find a home together and everyone wins.  

You do not win by having your genes crowded out.

Germany takes those refugees for ideological/humanitarian reasons (influenced with historical guilt), not because they need immigrants (in that case they would recruit from different parts of the world).