Irrespective of the rights/wrongs success/failure debate as to whether the raids achieved anything, what everyone forgets is that we scored a spectacular own-goal with the first raid
Within days the UK press was full of detail as to how many tankers were required to mount the raid, thus making it clear to all that an attempt at anything more than a one-aircraft token (and probably suicidal) attack on the Argentine mainland was impossible
If their lordships had kept their mouths shut over the technicalities I'm sure the Argentines would have felt more restricted in their actions.