I completely agree with you. The third hokage let orochimaru go when he could have stopped him. The third hokage let the elders and danzou make wrong decisions. Tsunade never let the elders or danzou do what they wanted. It was thanks to the influence of yondaime minato that third war stopped. He wasn't able to find an alternative solution to the uchiha massacre in time. This is far too many failures for a hokage.
However, the hokage who made the worst mistake in naruto verse is the first hokage (harishima). He was so genius and said "let me share the tail demons to the other village so it can be balanced and treat them as tools". The good descendant of the sage of the six path treated the tail demons as tools. No wonder the tail demon started hating humans. The tail demons are ranked by their tails, there is no balance in that. One tail demon is weaker than two tail demon. If konoha was going to stay with the most powerful tail demon among the tail demons, how is this balance? Now that each village had a taste of having the power of the tail demons in their power, they wanted more tail demons in their possession. Most of the ninja wars were attempts of taking control of the tail demons. Rather than creating balance, he caused chaos.
Glad you agree, with me on Sarutobi.
Handing out tailed beasts was not a mistake.. but to equalize world power. To make sure Konoha isn't the Dominant one.. That was one step closer to "True peace" and it was the senju way. How hashirama treated the Tailed beast is still unkown, so i can't make remarks about that. Tail demons are ranked by their tails.. But you have to realize Konoha only had 1.. While many others had more then 1. And, It was the people who used the Tailed beasts for power that were wrong... I can basically go back to SO6P on this. Him picking the younger son can be a mistake also.. But its not. Same with Hashirama. Hashirama did what was best. Its the people who didn't see it that way, that led the war.
I don't care if dirty work is not Hashirama's way. You know who else was employing dirty work, trying to gain the upper hand over Konoha? Suna, Iwa, and Kumo. Danzo's work prevented that.
If humanity was all lovey-dovey and kind to eachother then there would be no need for dirty work. Guess what we're not. Lovey-dovey and kind to eachother.
No.. Sarutobi saw another choice...The other 2 geezers and Danzo didn't even think it out.. and try to hear out the uchiha.. Instead they just named them Traitors right on the spot.. Which is a dumb and stupid thing.. Only reasonable guy there was Sarutobi, who picked to negotiate with the Uchiha. Instead of acting like a complete dumbass and assuming they were gonna attack.
Danzo corrupted Kabuto long time ago.. Lmao. Oro actually gave Kabuto a home.. what every kid desires. =]
Fire vs fire = More fire. Dirty work vs Dirty work = more Dirty work. why? If you do something dirty.. you needa do more dirty work to hide that dirty thing you did. it makes a cycle.