Both Sonny and Mike both told Tom, he wasn't a wartime consiglieri. Why difference did it make that he wasn't a wartime consiglieri? Tom seemed to be very good and effective as a peacetime lawyer.

Sonny even went as far as saying:

SONNY

Well you just do what I tell you to do! Goddamn it! If I had a wartime consiglieri -- a

Sicilian -- I wouldn't be in this shape! Pop had Genco -- look what I got.


What was so great about Genco? Wasn't Vito smarter and braver then Genco? Genco ran away when he saw that his girlfriend was being threatened, while Vito, went after Fanucci when Fanucci tried to extort him.