“The question is, why we are spending billions to free these people if many of them don’t even want freedom?”
After 9/11 we became engaged in the WOT. The powers that be chose iraq as the location to begin taking the WOT abroad. Giving these a-holes freedom was incidental to removing hussein and killing the AQ cockroaches who went there to fight.
A-rabs can not live in peace- not with each other nor with anyone else. They are by and large a hopeless subpart of the species.
They have been indoctrinated to hate Israel and the US and for many of them, that will never change, no matter what liberties they attained through our efforts.
Just finish kicking some radical islamist ass and then get the hell out of there. Afganistan is next.