re: Stringer Bell: Mistakes were made. (The Wire)

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Stringer needed Avon though, he wasnt hard enough. And when he tried to be hard (offing Omar on church day) he fricked things up.

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What Avon said to Stringer about being a man without a country, was 100% accurate. Not hard enough for the drug game. Not smart enough for the "bidness man" game.

Actually...I think Stringer was smart enough to eventually be a successful entrepreneur outside the drug game, but the Stringer that we saw didn't yet have the skills or the savvy to do so. Had he lived 5 more years, I think he would have been running shite.

But none of that is really a "mistake" made by Stringer. His only real mistake was the Brother Mouzzone thing. That was obviously a terrible move.