Naruto Shippuuden 339

[Buffalobiian]

I agree with Kraco about Danzo making a crappy Hokage, as I've said as well. What I also said was that he was there to take care of all the shit that the idealistic Hokage (Sarutobi) couldn't deal with, such as the Uchiha incident.

Letting Sasuke live was actually a requirement in making Itachi act. Recall that he wanted to settle this before the outside world knew about Konoha's problem and launched an attack. His leverage over Itachi was that by killing the Uchiha he could save lives.. but most importantly for him the life of his brother. As Itachi left, he warned that if Danzo hurt Konoha or his brother he'd reveal everything.

On top of that, there's the fact that all of the asshole ninja problems that "require" asshole ninja solutions were caused by ninjas being assholes in the first place.

Basically, the whole hate goes in circles thing. Naruto tries to take all the hate on by himself. How many other people can do such a thing and succeed?

And for all those people who can't, what are they supposed to do? Let the hate from others destroy them, or postphone it till later? Danzo had the right idea here by killing everybody in the Uchiha, even women and children. The only catch was that in order for it to happen he had to let Sasuke live. It wasn't as if he chose this way knowing it'd breed hate 10 years later. Tobi was an unknown.

[DarthEnderX]

And for all those people who can't, what are they supposed to do? Let the hate from others destroy them, or postphone it till later?

Better that then propping up a system built around tragedy by creating more tragedy.

The simple third solution is this...the coup is the result of them being marginalized to the point to where they want to take over the village. So you let them. Let them be in control. And once they no longer feel backed into the corner, you have all the time in the world to work things out with them. To, like Itachi said, change them from the inside.

But the choices Danzou and the others were making wasn't about what was actually best for the village, it's about maintaining their power at any cost.

Danzo had the right idea here by killing everybody in the Uchiha, even women and children. The only catch was that in order for it to happen he had to let Sasuke live. It wasn't as if he chose this way knowing it'd breed hate 10 years later. Tobi was an unknown.

That's just it. Even if he had gotten Sasuke to, his stupid plan still wouldn't have worked. As, not only do you have unknown Uchiha's causing greater problems than the Uchiha clan ever did, but the biggest threat currently comes from a DEAD Uchiha. So wiping them out isn't even a guarantee of success.

If Tobi had really been smart, he would have taken those 50 Sharingan's he'd collected, and let Kabuto ressurrect the entire Uchiha clan under their control.

[Kraco]

And for all those people who can't, what are they supposed to do? Let the hate from others destroy them, or postphone it till later? Danzo had the right idea here by killing everybody in the Uchiha, even women and children. The only catch was that in order for it to happen he had to let Sasuke live. It wasn't as if he chose this way knowing it'd breed hate 10 years later. Tobi was an unknown.

Sure, the right idea. I have a feeling he wouldn't have been able to trust those arrogant and all-seeing Hyuuga too long either. The Hyuuga can't even trust each other, so how would they expect others to trust them? They would have been better off dead next. The Aburame clan is little better. They live in some closed-off village and they only care for their insects that can neautralize chakra. Highly suspicious and dangerous. Better off dead. The Sarutobi family likely dreams of getting back to power, so Konohamaru ought to be neutralized while it's still easy. The members of the Nara clan are far too smart, nobody can imagine what they are thinking behind the mask of laziless. They must be wiped out before they can execute their plans. The Inuzuka clan makes excellent ninja dog trainers, but dogs aren't supposed to think for themselves, only obey, so they could use some heavy pruning as well.

Like DE already said, this was never about saving Konoha. It was about saving the power structure of that time. Danzo was like any paranoid dictator has ever been, always looking for enemies of the state everywhere. When the leadership is like that, dissidents are sure to appear naturally.