Was Pol Pot insane

Answer 1

Well many of the things he believed were pretty outlandish: No one should be educated, families shouldn't exist, cities are decadent, money should be banned, everyone should work as farmers on the land for 20hrs a day, holidays should be banned, anti-intellectualism, anti-lawyers, anti-medicine, mass murder of religious clerics like Buddhist monks, catholic priests, Muslim imams etc. Although he would probably be just as insane as any political figure in that position. That term has been used by many people to describe or question nearly every historical person...from an Egyption King to Adolf Hitler, from Napoleon to any modern leader today.