Speaker John Boehner John Andrew BoehnerLongtime House parliamentarian to step down Five things we learned from this year's primaries Bad blood between Pelosi, Meadows complicates coronavirus talks MORE (R-Ohio) on Sunday said there will have to be U.S. boots on the ground overseas in the mission to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“Somebody’s boots have to be on the ground,” Boehner said in a live interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “We have some 3,000 boots on the ground today. Let’s not suggest that we don’t.”

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While Boehner said military commanders, and not Congress, should decide whether to increase the U.S. force in the Middle East, he also said, “We’re going to have to have some people in there, providing advice, and those are boots on the ground.”

Boehner said it’s important for “America to speak with one voice” on foreign policy issues and when international threats arise.

“I go out of my way to try to be supportive of the president’s foreign policy when I think he’s right, he said, adding that Obama has outlined “a strategy that nobody believes would accomplish the mission.”

Obama asked Congress for a new authorization for the use of military force (AUMF), Boehner said, “where he actually asked for less authority than what he has today.”