Secretary Of State Marco RubioSparks flew in the Senate on Wednesday, but the heat wasn’t coming from across the aisle. Instead, it was a sharp confrontation between two prominent Republicans: Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He asked a pointed hypothetical question: If a foreign nation slipped into the United States, bombed air defenses, and kidnapped the American president, would Rubio call that war? He stated that while the scenario Paul described doesn’t exist right now, the United States will always reserve the right to act in its own defense. “We’re always going to do what’s best for the United States and America,” Rubio said, sidestepping the direct equivalency to focus on U.S. security.