Giving someone who initiated a war that ended in mass disorder a prize to represent their peaceful actions is completely 'against the grain' of what peace is.
They don't deserve it. The US and the western European countires involved have this little peice of propaganda drilled into their heads at a very, very young age: the US is the only country doing it right, and it shall always be this way. Yes, our country is the most successful in a capitalistic sense. However, it's also suffering from hubris and severe moral rot (it's now acceptable to have ANY casulaties of war? How many die before it's considered a unneccessary mistake?).
Now we're going to go in there and 'save' them from their own native religion. Well, gee golly, guys, did it ever occur to you that Christianity isn't the ONLY right religion? That, perhaps, other religions have good people also? If they WANTED our religion, our belief system, or our social mores, they'd come over here and partake in it. In my eyes, it's a crime to go over there and claim that they cannot know 'truth' or 'freedom' until they have our 'truth' and our 'freedom'.
Yes, Lizard King, come around and belittle me for not holding the same flag-waving beliefs as you. Call me a moron. Even more, prove my point about US citizens feeding their own blinding pride.