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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., pushed back against Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., after a Twitter barrage criticizing Rubio's resistance to the president's new Cuba policy.

After President Obama announced his plan to normalize relations with Cuba, Rubio was one of the first Republicans to speak out against the plan, saying it would only feed the oppressive communist regime in the country.

Paul took to Twitter to criticize the opinion of his colleague and potential fellow 2016 presidential candidate, saying Rubio was taking the path of isolationism.

When asked about Paul's opinion and criticism, Rubio maintained his assertion and fired back against Paul.

"I disagree and he has the right to be a supporter of President Obama's foreign policy but I think it's premised on the same false notion that engagement alone leads to freedom. It doesn't," he told Bob Shieffer on Face the Nation.

Paul made the point this is not the first time the United States has engaged with a communist nation.

"I am opposed to changes like this that have no chance in leading to the result that we want which is more freedom and more liberty for the Cuban people. This change is entirely predicated upon the the false notion that engagement alone automatically leads to freedom and I think we have evidence that's not the case. Look at Vietnam. Look at China. Countries that we have engaged -- they are no more politically free today than when that engagement started," said Rubio.

The Florida senator recognized that while China has not changed despite normalized relations with the United States, it is geopolitically and economically impossible to pursue a policy of isolationism against China.

"Comparing China to Cuba is not really a comparable analogy because China is the second largest economy in the world, they have the third largest nuclear arsenal on the planet, they are the most populous nation on the planet so, obviously, from a geopolitical standpoint, our approach, by necessity, has to be different from a small, impoverished island of 13 million people,' he said.

Rubio, whose constituency includes many Cuban-Americans, some dissidents and defectors from the island, could be facing a new way of thinking in the formerly staunchly pro-embargo voting bloc.

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One of the most dismissive terms thrown around in foreign policy circles is isolationist. If you are an isolationist, you clearly have not considered the issues carefully and rationally, and need not be taken seriously. Libertarian leaning politicians such as Ron and Rand Paul are frequent targets of this epithet.

There may or may not be a handful of actual libertarians who are isolationist, but the reality is that libertarianism is among the most internationally minded philosophies. Examining several key areas of international relations makes this clear: International trade, diplomacy and the military, and institutions.

The most obvious place where libertarians are internationalists is economic relations. True libertarians advocate the free flow of trade and investment, without government restrictions. This is about as international as you can get. For libertarians, the origin of a product or service is irrelevant. People around the world should be able to buy and sell from each other without government interference.

In the international arena, libertarians can and will have a strong voice and play an important role. That role should not be diminished by simplistic and inaccurate cries of isolationism.

Unfortunately, in most countries today, there is a strong sentiment for favoring domestic economic actors over foreign ones. This feeling manifests itself in various forms, such as tariffs and Buy National procurement policies. Libertarians stand almost completely united against this nationalist feeling, believing that trade and other economic interaction with foreign actors benefits us all.

Diplomacy and the military is a more complicated policy area, involving a number of instances of potential relations between domestic and foreign. Here, though, there is a strong case that libertarians are more internationalist than most others. Of course, in part this depends on what one means by internationalism.

Libertarians are most frequently accused of isolationism when they object to military intervention in foreign territories. That libertarians usually object to these interventions is not in doubt. However, use of the military cannot always credibly be called internationalist. Colonialism and conquest, although they do require contact with foreigners, are not generally a positive form of international relations.

More controversially, libertarians may sometimes object to peaceful aid to foreigners as well. But this is not done out of anti-foreigner sentiment. Rather it is based on skepticism over the effectiveness of aid and its misuse as a foreign policy tool, and a general preference for markets over government support. Libertarians certainly believe in private outreach among civil society groups in one nation to the people of other nations. The objection is only to the mismanagement of governments when they get involved.

Thus, for libertarians, war and government aid do not reflect true internationalism. To some extent, they are really about government bullying and condescension towards foreigners, the idea that we are superior to them and can use our power to re-make them in our image. In contrast, libertarians believe in treating citizens of other countries with respect and acting with humility.

Finally, there is the issue of international institutions. This is the area where libertarians are most likely to reject what is conventionally thought of as the internationalist position, as they worry about the power of these institutions. In reality, libertarians are not rejecting the idea of international institutions, but rather the specific policies pursued by some of these institutions. For example, if the IMF advocates Keynesian fiscal policy, and libertarians object, it is the policy they object to, not the institution itself. If there were international institutions that supported balanced budgets (or protected property rights), for example, libertarians would likely be supportive. There is no fundamental libertarian objection to international cooperation through institutions; the only concern is on specific issues of substance.

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Embattled Speaker of the Ekiti State Assembly, Dr. Adewale Omirin,

The management of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, has opposed the bid by the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers of the Ekiti State House of Assembly to conduct their plenary in the institution.

The management of the university said no political meetings would be allowed on the campus.

The opposition lawmakers had at their plenary presided over by the embattled Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin, at a secret location in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, resolved to hold their sittings and conduct normal legislative business at the Faculty of Science, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti.

This followed a motion by the majority leader, Churchill Adedipe, to reconvene the Assembly at a public place within the state capital, outside the House of Assembly chambers for security reasons.

He said the action was supported by Section 101 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

But in a statement issued by the Registrar of EKSU, Mr. Emmanuel Ogunyemi, the management of the university said no political meetings would be allowed on the premises.

The statement read, The attention of the Management of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, has been drawn to news reports by print and electronic media organisations over plans by the All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the Ekiti State House of Assembly to hold plenary meetings on the university campus.

The university management wishes to inform the general public that the Ekiti State University premises is not open to political meetings and we state unequivocally that no legislative meeting was held on our campus as being speculated in some quarters and no such meetings would be allowed to hold in the university premises.

The university is a community of teachers and scholars and Ekiti State University is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research and should not be joined with unnecessary political issues.

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