Tun Mahathir was fully back by most of Asian and Middle East countries in international political arena but a lot of western leaders disagree with his opinion and leadership due to the following reasons:- He managed to open other leader's eyes that each country should be able to talk freely like other developed countries. He always critics western and developed countries which look down on developing countries. He managed to be a leader of Islamic country and highly respected by other middle east leaders. He has taken out Malaysia from depending on certain countries only for any support like defence, technology, trading partners, political support and other significant matters which reflect country's pride. He brought Malaysia to be an example of succesful Islamic country to the west and the whole world without jeopardizing the islamic teaching. He manage to convinced some world important leaders such as Prime Minister of France, President of Russia and Counselor of Germany to listen to Malaysian views in certain political matters like war on Iraq. He not listening to western leaders without any solid justification on why Malaysia should listen to them. For Tun, Malaysia interest and pride are the most important. He don't want Malaysia to be in control in term of political like other countries.