helicopters into those zones to drop food aid and get life giving assistance. polio has had a resurgence in the northeast of nigeria and donors across the world willing to give money to the cause here, to try and save the lives. you know, while the outrage was around these girls and put a focus on the issue here, there s a larger scale problem going on in northeast nigeria that s severely underfunded and definitely unreported. it s more than 3 million people in the northeast there that are displaced. as you said, the aid communities have been very slow, unfortunately, in getting donors to get what they need there. they re talking about a widespread famine. yet, david, boko haram is still a menace in that area. it will continue to stalk those people, won t it? that s right.
bergdahl. some of the five guys are back in battle. recidivism rate for guys we re letting out of gitmo is high. i want to interject with just a thought. i read if these are the last 100 or so, they weren t among those already released for a reason perhaps. they could be. could be according to what i m reading, worst of the worst. this is a different situation than 1%, 2%, 3%. this is going to be these guys might be more dedicated to the cause than we ve ever seen. that s the real fear. i have seen statistics that show that recidivism rate is as high as 35. the white house argues that. they re wrong. the large scale problem is we lack the strategy. we re releasing known terrorists. we now have seen that terrorists are coming into our country. isis has said that they re going to do bastardly acts.
there s no comparison here to katrina. nothing. it doesn t work. it s cute. but it doesn t work. your thoughts? what i would add to your analogy is that the guy standing on the side is also fishing out the life preserver, making sure that it s not even possible to help the person because they simply don t believe that it s the role of anybody on the side to jump in and save someone. look, the analogy, i think one day, anyone capable of embarrassment is going to look back, including some people in the news biz, and be embarrassed at the idea of comparing this glitch i website and the inability of some people to buy single market, high deductible insurance to the death of 1800 people. i mean, if you think about just the scale problem, it s really quite embarrassing to make that comparison. in the case of hurricane katrina, you re talking about the benign or active neglect of both state and federal government that led directly or indirectly to the deaths of 1833 human beings.
it s cute. but it doesn t work. your thoughts? what i would add to your analogy is that the guy standing on the side is also fishing out the life preserver, making sure that it s not even possible to help the person because they simply don t believe that it s the role of anybody on the side to jump in and save someone. look, the analogy, i think one day, anyone capable of embarrassment is going to look back, including some people in the news biz, and be embarrassed at the idea of comparing this glitch i website and the inability of some people to buy single market, high deductible insurance to the death of 1800 people. i mean, if you think about just the scale problem, it s really quite embarrassing to make that comparison. in the case of hurricane katrina, you re talking about the benign or active neglect of both state and federal government that led directly or indirectly to the deaths of 1833 human beings. the idea that that is comparable to a glitchy website is really sort of emb
back, including some people in the news biz, and be embarrassed at the idea of comparing this witchy website and the inability of some people to buy single market, high deductible insurance to the death of 1800 people. i mean, if you think about just the scale problem, it s really quite embarrassing to make that comparison. in the case of hurricane katrina, you re talking about the benign or active neglect of both state and federal government that led directly or indirectly to the deaths of 1833 human beings. the idea that that is comparable to a glitchy website is really sort of embarrassing, even as a comparison and it shows you the kind of callusness that you hear from the right. the kind of indifference to human suffering that s quite ironic when they re trying to compare the president to george w. bush. and another piece of this, there s the little chuckle worthy there after taking hell over katrina, which they deserve because they did show indifference, to, hey, he s as bad as