THE EUPHORIA which accompanied the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in downtown Baghdad on Wednesday, proved to be short-lived. The event signalled that the Anglo-American alliance had won the war in Iraq. Now the focus turns to winning the peace. It is already apparent that this will be a more difficult victory to claim. Baghdad awoke to looting, lawlessness and continued attacks on alliance forces yesterday. The situation is at least as bad in other Iraqi cities. For as long as this instability continues, Iraq's humanitarian crisis will worsen. If aid agencies are unable to enter the country very soon, a tragic scenario could develop. Meanwhile, the entry of Kurdish fighters into Kirkuk has raised fears that Turkey may now choose to invade northern Iraq herself. Turkish observers have been dispatched to Kirkuk, with American approval. The US, meanwhile, has reassured Turkey that it will soon take control of Kirkuk, but it will have to act swiftly. Moreover, the manpower it commits to that job may further postpone the urgent task of restoring order to Iraq. In short, the war is far from over. So, too, is the suffering of the Iraqi people. And if the allies do not succeed in ending or at least mitigating their hardship very soon, they may find they make many more enemies in this devastated land. The plaudits over the brilliance of the military campaign may soon be giving way to more sober assessments of the consequences of this war. Among those consequences are the geopolitics not only of the Middle East region but the global relationships in which the demonstrated might of the single superpower will be seen with increasing apprehension.