Originally posted by Don Pappo Napolitano:
Well, it was well known Michael was a war hero, but If I were Sollozzo I would have taken care about him, even Michael hadn`t criminal backgrounds, he was a was hero and that makes him capable to kill, he must have killed more than one hundred people in the World War 2.
You're right, DPN: Sollozzo (and McCluskey) should have been more wary. But (as I've posted about a million times before
), a major subtheme of the trilogy is how crises are caused by people misjudging or underestimating others. Vito underestimated Tattaglia and Sollozzo. But Sollozzo and McCluskey underestimated Michael. Since you quoted the novel, you'll remember that Sonny said that the most important reason to have Michael do the killing was that "they got Mike down as faggy" because he didn't fight back or press charges when McCluskey broke his jaw.
