FUNEREAL POL

Good news on the genocidal-monster front: Pol Pot — as of this writing — is reportedly surrounded, pinned down near the Cambodian-Thai border by some 1,000 defectors from his Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot may not have Hitler’s or Stalin’s or Mao’s numbers, but his percentage is impressive: He and his followers killed between 2 and 3 million of their fellow Cambodians in the second half of the 1970s (following America’s withdrawal of support from South Vietnam), almost one-third of the entire population. Or, as the Washington Post put it last week in a story signed by John D. Cramer: ” The Khmer Rouge overthrew the Phnom Penh government in 1975 and launched a four-year experiment in agrarian communism.” Well, that’s one way to put it.