The Nobel Peace Prize Committee on Friday handed the award to Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet (NDQ) for its "decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia" after the "Jasmine Revolution" of 2011. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is expected to be a likely candidate for her efforts in handling the Syrian refugee crisis, has to wait for her chance in the future.

Tunisia is the country where the "Arab Spring" originated. The award is believed to demonstrate the committee's recognition of and support for the Arab Spring.

But at the same time, the award also evoked complicated feelings toward the blood-stained revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa.

In five years, the Arab Spring had spread from Tunisia to Egypt and Libya, its shockwaves reaching further to Yemen, Syria and other countries. At that time, the Western world reacted with cheers. The US and European nations offered moral as well as military support to the rebels who started the revolts, which in turn helped spread the revolutions.

Several years have passed. Egypt has been moving backward, as former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, who was overthrown during the country's revolution, has been freed from jail, while the elected new leader Mohamed Morsi was thrown into prison. Libya was freed from Muammar Gaddafi's rule, but fell into chaos like Iraq. Civil wars also broke out in Yemen and Syria, and the latter has become the origin of the biggest refugee crisis seen in Europe since World War II.

The Arab Spring has become a collective poisoning crisis caused by the Western recipe.

Many of the countries undergoing such revolutions, including Afghanistan and Iraq which were directly "liberated" by Western forces, are the most chaotic countries today.

Before the revolutions took place, many of the countries were already plagued by acute domestic problems. The West encouraged them to introduce Western democracy through violent revolutions. However, many of those attempts were followed by failures.

The Quartet in Tunisia is not a representative example. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee picked it as if to encourage those who stumble along their way directed by the West to remain hopeful in the dark.

Of course, the West is not entirely to blame for the countries going through unsuccessful revolutions. Before the revolutions, those countries missed better chances at reform, with social disputes accumulating to an irreversible exploding point. Reform is the best way for a country to avoid or relieve crisis. Most of the successful countries in the world had gone through a process of intensive reforms.