Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-18016240-20160208110013/@comment-27660682-20160302194814

It's not even so much he he had the time to make all those mistakes, its he kept making the SAME mistakes over and over. He had plenty of time to learn from those mistakes so there really isnt an excuse, and it ended up costing him his life. Hiruzen is intelligent but he is a very naive and weak hokage politically. Too many of the same emotionally based decisions. Tobirama as paranoid as he was at least didnt make emotional decisions like that. He even respected some uchiha like kagami.