Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
The question is, how hard should you try to find the third path while your options tick away?
How hard were they ticking away? Let's not forget Danzo actually came to an Uchiha begging him to slay the rest of the Uchiha. That alone tells the man was unsure he could have pulled it off without massive losses by other means. The huge weakness of creating a super criminal, no, actually two, in the process is also a proof of how Danzo was almost grasping at straws. He wouldn't have bothered to approach Itachi if he had better solutions available.