Originally Posted By: The Last Woltz
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First: He was right to think Sollozzo would try to kill his father after the failed hospital attempt. He was wrong to believe that only he could save his father, by killing Sollozzo and McCluskey. ...... The Corleones could have fed the newspapermen on their payroll the story about McCluskey being a dishonest cop mixed up in drugs and murder before, not after, the trigger was pulled........


Difficult, but not impossible. Maybe that strategy could have worked. However it could have also backfired. It is my opinion that if they chose not to kill Sollozo, then it would have still left some kind of an opening for Sollozo to kill, or have Vito killed, in some other manner.


Don Cardi


Agreed. This would have been difficult, but not impossible.

Of course, there was a third potential course of action: Sonny's. Move agressively to kill Sollozzo at the earliest opportunity. If it was done in a way that did not involve killing McCluskey, this may have ensured the safety of Vito without launching a war.

Maybe Sonny wasn't such a bad don after all.




It would make no sense to expose McCluskey as a dishonest cop just for the hell of it. As Michael said the "key" was killing Sollozzo. If some story had run that McCluskey was a dishonest cop, where would the proof be? And wouldnt that just have Solozzo get himself another dishonest cop? The point is they had to kill Sollozzo, and then they had to figure out how to deal with the fallout of the "collateral damage" that was McCluskey. This was all Michael's idea, not Sonny's. In fact Tom had talked Sonny into waiting it out before Michael intervened.

So Sonny WAS a bad Don.

"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"

"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."

"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."