Romney understands the threat jihadists pose to the United States.

Reasons to agree:

1. He criticized the administration’s decision to rely solely on WMD rationale for Iraq rather than making a positive case.
2. He endorsed surveillance of radical mosques
3. “The president is right to point to an international jihadist movement aimed at the collapse of the United States. He has gone after that threat in the right way and with great energy and vigor, and I applaud the fact that he has taken it on very seriously and has not considered it just a criminal action but instead a war action, which requires a military…response.”

Reasons to disagree:

1. Its one thing to understand the threat the jihadist pose to the United States. Its another thing to be competent enough to fix the problem.