Rewriting a post I already wrote ;;
Using Naruto's faults to justify Sasuke's actions... just wow
... I mentioned two times before how I thought that Sasuke was being extreme in his actions (concerning the Gokages). The only reason I brought up Naruto's faults were because the discussion was about the better choice of Hokage, and his faults directly impact that.
Are you... trying to play a Devil's Advocate or something? Cause no one can be that serious trying to justify Sasuke's actions like this.
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Look, Naruto isn't exactly the smart type. Neither is Sasuke. At this point, he's just a kid who thinks he can do better than past leaders. Heck, he doesn't even have the disposition to work with others. In fact everyone in the war were following Naruto in their strategies against Obito. Being a leader doesn't mean you can do everything by yourself ya know. I mean you need the cooperation of the people you lead. Also, deception AND forcing the change is not the way to go. Results doesn't mean crap if the methods to do so are just inexcusable. With the way he go about it, he'd probably be worse than Danzo and Kaguya.
First off, he believes he can do better because he has seen and questioned those leaders personally over their past command and mistakes. There's no reason he shouldn't think he could do better given that he KNOWS where they went wrong. Secondly, Sasuke has never had a problem working with others. He was the one pushing for teamwork in the current arc. He has multiple times gathered together a team to achieve his goals. Even in Part One where he was a loner, he always jumped in to support his teammates, even if he didn't much care for them. Third, "everyone was following Naruto" and getting nowhere. In case you forgot, Obito and Madara were winning for the most part until the Edo Hokages showed up, which was specifically thanks to Sasuke. Fourth, that is kind of what Hokage means. We have literally seen it multiple times from the other Hokages. The only Hokage that didn't do everything himself was Sarutobi, who simply allowed Danzo to do all the dirty work for him. But even then, it was the Hokage with the complete and final say in matters. We saw with Tsunade that even if others disagreed, it didn't matter because her word were the law. And fifth, deception and force is likely the way to go. Remember, there have been multiple characters who attempted to bring about peace straight forward and failed. Attempts to bring peace by talking and working together have been tried and it failed every time. So why shouldn't Sasuke, knowing all this, try a different method? Trying a method that has already proven to not work is foolishness. And how would he be anything like Danzo or Kaguya? He's not after power, he has power already.
Sympathy for the Devil can only go so far. Yes, you can sympathize with what he's been through but it does not mean you can say that whatever they're doing is right. Sympathy for villains are constantly misused. Heck, it was attempted on Madara just so people can like him more because he's that image of a cool looking villain that does all this amazing feats. *CoughsSephirothcoughs*
Except calling Sasuke a "villain" is hypocritical. Sasuke hasn't done anything that wasn't already done by Itachi - join Akatsuki, working with Orochimaru, work with Obito, attack Konoha ninjas, attack Jinchuurikis, etc. The only thing Sasuke hasn't done is commit a massacre. Not only that, but when people like Nagato and Obito (both of who have far larger body counts then Sasuke, including children) are considered heroic in-series, the word villain is meaningless.
It isn't Naruto's job to watch over them; it's his job to give them a place to meet with one another. Presumably, the Tailed Beasts will (with exceptions like the Eight-Tails, who seems intent upon bunking with Killer Bee again, and Kurama for obvious reasons) be responsible for themselves. Couple that with the fact that the Kages are most likely on the same page of not wanting to weaponize the Tailed Beasts anymore, and I'd say it's not a prevalent enough issue to warrant exterminating them entirely.
And why does it matter how long Naruto will be around for? One of the carrying themes of the story has been passing the torch to the next generation; one would assume that Naruto would arrange for somebody to take his place (in at least some capacity; I can't see him stuffing parts of every Tailed Beasts' Chakra into somebody new) before it reaches that point.
Why would the Gokages be on that page? The recent war did nothing to solve the overall issues of the ninja system, which outright requires conflict and war for it to merely exist. And without Naruto, there's no way that the Bijuus would be capable of avoiding being caught again. We know that there are multiple different ways to capture them, all of which the various villages know.
It matters because the series has gone out of it's way to imply that only Naruto would be capable of bring the peace, thus the reason why everyone else who attempted it failed. It was literally fated. So someone else being capable of it would fly in the face of that.
