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29bombing on radar, bomb trajectory, and so on were all mere trifles tohim. As far as he was concerned, you picked the target, placed yourselfabove it, let the bomb go, and the job was done. For Nicco, aircraftalways found, hit and destroyed their targets. Otherwise, he said, whatwas the good of them? As a result, I spent a great deal of time briefingthe Ambassador on the air war, and then watching his subsequenttelevision appearances with my fingers crossed.He got his own back on me one day. It was an afternoon in late Mayand the Ambassador was exhausted by his efforts. The Argentineans atGoose Green had just surrendered and CNN asked him for an interviewat 10pm that night. Nicco visibly sagged and said, %u2018I really don%u2019t think Ican%u2019. Then he looked across the table at me and said, %u2018You go%u2019. Myprotestations about being a simple military man were brushed aside and Iwas duly despatched to the CNN studios that night. The interview was acosy little three-way affair, with me in Washington, Herrera Vegas(Argentina%u2019s man at the UN) in New York, and the interviewer inAtlanta. The second half of the program was to be in the form of an open%u2018phones %u2018call-in%u2019. I was not too happy about facing Herrera Vegas, asmooth, professional diplomat who had been doing well for some timeon television. However, the news from Goose Green must have rattledhim, because he seemed tense and he made a serious tactical error at anearly stage. He said that it was his unpleasant duty to report that theBritish were killing Argentinean prisoners of war. He claimed they werebeing used to walk ahead of British soldiers to clear minefields. He wenton to say that it was unfair of Americans to accuse only the Galtierigovernment of human rights abuses when it was well known that Britainwas a nation which consistently violated human rights. Once thesecracks had appeared in his usually polished composure, his credibilitywas gone and I was able to hold the moral high ground. That wassatisfying, but the %u2018call-in%u2019 left me with a thoroughly warm glow. Thecalls came in from all over the US and every caller bar one wasenthusiastically in support of Britain. I left the studio smiling broadly atevery American I saw.Let me turn to some of the things more obviously in the militarysphere. I had, of course, been heavily involved in the crisis since the firstday. Mrs Thatcher announced the task force on Saturday, 3 April, and onMonday morning I was on my way to the Pentagon, wearing my bestblue and gold ropes and feeling rather stiff and formal. I presented