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Originally posted by BarrytheBull:
...Let's give Tom some credit, very smart, very resourceful and loved Mikey just as much as anyone else. With Tom wanted revenge......they could have come up with something to take on the other families.
I believe we're ALL giving Tom credit, for all the things you state.

I don't however think he would have come up with something to 'take on' the other families. If anything, he would've come up with something to work with them, if not completely walked away from the business (which is what I think he would've done in the event of Michael's assasination).

After all, though not by blood...he was one of Vito's sons as well as the Consiglieri. That alone would have prevented him from any alliance with Barzini. But I don't think he would've gone to war. And I don't think the Corleone Family survivors would've invited him to, either.

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