So Michael did NOT have to kill his own brother because he was a Mafia Don. He really didn't have to have Fredo killed. There were other alternatives.
The bottom line is that Michael had grown into this egotistical, paranoid, self serving cold hearted son of a bitch and that is why he could not see it clear to punish his brother some other way other than ordering his death.
He didn't have to and shouldn't have ordered the death of his own brother.
Don Cardi
Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
