Thread:Omega64/@comment-4503935-20190703001710/@comment-10330822-20191221142526

Justin Holland wrote: Was Tobimara mistaken to choose Hiruzen as a successor? No for the most part. Hiruzen was a really great Hokage; popular, powerful, and wise. He had a large impact on many of the future shinobi of that village, even helped lessen the burden on the more troubled shinobi as children like Iruka and Naruto.

The only problem was that Hiruzen was a pacifist and an idealist who felt leadership could be done with minimal sacrifice. Problem is while Hiruzen was peaceful, the world his village operated in was not. Drastic measures were needed to insure the village's security and power. That is why the Foundation was necessary, because there needed to be a body of shinobi that could handle the kind of work that Hiruzen was adverse to.

Of course, the world was moving more and more towards the peaceful after the third war. So while organizations like Root/the Foundation were needed in their time, their necessity dropped significantly over time.

In fact, you could say they disbanded at the right time, just the coalition of shinobi was greated and the boundries between shinobi villages shrank, a peaceful dialogue became possible between the five nations. Its through this, at least as the anime and novels are concerned, that the Shinobi Union was formed to solve the sort of issues Root/The Foundation would normally be used for.