Evremonde's lackey.

For many Arabs, the vote showed that Turkey was not an American lackey and would not cooperate with American imperial designs, despite close Turkish Israeli relations.

But Mubarak never entirely fit his detractors portrayal of him as an American lackey. In fact, Mubarak s need to please his Saudi Arabian benefactors, not the United States, was paramount in his thinking. Although he sometimes supported American policies, Mubarak frequently rebuffed the US when its positions did not align with his own.