Emerald Oracle said:
13ry4n said:
Ninja doing something morally questionable? Why, it's almost like they're mercenaries that use child soldiers to do awful shit!
It's not so much the morally questionable bit as it is the stupidity bit. Rather than do recon, or try to find out what the situation actually is , the description says that he's sending a shinobi in completely blind to assassinate a foreign head of state who may or may not have anything to do with the situation.
That sort of heavy handed militancy is Danzo's style. I would expect 'those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash' Kakashi to care more about his shinobi than to send one on a mission like that. I can understand sending in a capable individual like Shikamaru to ascertain the situation and then act on his own recognizance to resolve it, but sidspatching him to just straight up murder the problem without any knowledge of the situation on the ground is Danzo Style diplomacy.
To be fair, the mission could
include an assassination, but not be the primary objective. Sending in Shikamaru on a blind op would be the smart choice, as Kakashi will need someone to gather the intel that has gone missing to ascertain the situation, and then make the on-the-ground decision as to how to proceed. Because it wouldn't be the first time a Head of State was kept out of the loop of what his subordinates were doing, and in the case it is HoS responsible, there has to be an assassination to plan and fulfill, as well preparing an exit strategy, all of which will have to be created on the fly. If the problem proves to be too large or too difficult to handle via standard means, then we have to get that new intel back to the Hokage ASAP, and Shikamaru has a lot of experience in that area.