Whether the squeaky wheel gets the grease or not is not important.
What matters is that troublemakers always need to be appeased, especially when you need something from them.
Moreover, when others are using this troublemaker as a knife.
Soon, major newspapers in Washington, New York, and elsewhere published a piece of news:
"To support the European theater, Allied Command has ordered resources to be tilted as much as possible toward Europe, resulting in the suspension of airport construction for bombing Tokyo due to lack of funds."
A seemingly inconspicuous piece of news immediately struck a nerve with the American public. After all, the reason they joined WWII was to fight the Japanese and avenge Pearl Harbor.
For years, it's been all about Europe or Russia.
Almost no one mentioned the Pacific...
