I wasn't saying it shouldn't be a big story, because obviously it should be.

But I hope it might help people in America have more understanding of what it means to have to get by when all the services are cut off - and maybe to imagine what that must do to people when it lasts for months, and how it likely to make them regard the people who are in charge.

And where I live people in Iraq are not that much further away geographically than people in America.