@neolex:
They are not the people who would rise against him.

Dude, just sayin’, but that makes less sense than saying that Sunni and Shia are too opposed to cooperate militarily. We fight on principle, not sheer love of murder, pillage and rape, right?

What do bands of thugs DO? How many “made guys” got whacked in person by John Gotti? When payoffs start to dry up, gangsters start to eliminate one another. Once loosed, the mad dogs of war often consume the little bastards that sent them out.

It does not really make sense, but there has never been a time when it wasn’t happening lots of places. Gangsters are a problem. They expand until they are beaten back. Nu?