Ill thought out in YOUR opinion but never mind. Warfare has moved on from 1940, and what would you have the great powers do now, nothing but accept most of Syrias population ? What the great powers should have done in the first place was keep their fucking noses out of other peoples lives, it never was for the people but for political or strategic gain (or oil).
Open borders is ill though out (in my opinion) we can’t afford it, and it is likely to cause ill feeling within some communities.
Fact is I don’t have the answers but neither do you, no one has any easy answers that work. I’m merely putting forward counter arguments, I’m not saying we shouldn’t take any, I’m not saying it’s not our fault in part.
As for getting out by any means possible, aren’t some (maybe most) of the people who have drowned already got out. The conditions where they are, e.g. Turkey, may be bad maybe the first move is to do something about that then work out what happens next.