Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-18016240-20160208110013/@comment-734582-20160303203811

AsianReaper wrote: whereas Hiruzen couldn't bring himself to kill Orochimaru even when it was obvious that Orochimaru had to be put down). Even Kakashi had a hard time bringing himself to kill Sasuke, as he specifically brought that up. But Kakashi killed Rin. As far as we know, Hiruzen never had to kill someone so close to him.

A true leader makes decisions according to the situation: calculating when it needs be, but never forgetting emotions. I think it shows great wisdom that Hiruzen realized his weaknesses and appointed Danzo to help him.

As to Danzo and him screwing things up: Most if not nearly all he did was highly secretive, and even Hiruzen was hardly aware of everything he did. It wasnt until the Uchiha Massacre that Danzo had truly done something vile enough (That hiruzen was aware of) that Hiruzen absolutely had to react. Hell, i don't think the vast majority of the world was aware of what Danzo precisely did. =