Originally posted by Krlea:
[QUOTE]How were Sonny, Mike, and Fredo anymore prepared than Tom was for the "endemic ferocity of life in the Mafia"?? ... We could argue all day about who is cunning and who isin't. Vito never doubted Tom's abilities. He claimed he had made Tom into a Sicilian. So to say he isin't cunning, is in my opinion, pretty weak.
Michael never gave an enemy a pass--not even his brother. That's pretty ferocious. Vito certainly was made consigliere by the Don, who even told him (in the novel), "Even though you're not a Sicilian, I made you one." But the Don kept things from--ferocious things, like Luca Brazi, who reported directly to the Don and never took orders from Tom. That tells me that the Don had some reservations about Tom's readiness for bloodshed.
