Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney aired a new television ad in Iowa casting himself as tough on terrorism, confronting one of the central themes of rival Rudy Giuliani's campaign.

In the 30-second ad, the former Massachusetts governor vows to strengthen U.S. intelligence agencies, increase the size of the military by at least 100,000 troops and to monitor calls made to the United States by suspected al-Qaida associates.

This is a very intelligent move on Romney's part because a common compliant is that he really doesn't portray and foreign policy skills, so now he is having this tough on terrorism ad which will hopefully help him out!

[Update. Here's the add - Phil]