Absolutely TB. From a dramatic standpoint it made more sense to get Moe along with everyone else.
The sequence in the novel always bothered me a little because it seems that by getting rid of Moe before they made the move against Barzini and Tattaglia , the Corleones might be showing their hand a little bit.
I mean if I were Barzini and I'm pushing around the Corleones, taking over their gambling and loan sharking rackets, chasing them off the docks and maybe starting to cut them out of their narcotics payoffs and they do nothing, then I will think they are soft and weak. But if I hear that some new Corleone hitman who no one's heard of before takes out Moe Green, then maybe I should reassess, no?
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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