GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson Benjamin (Ben) Solomon CarsonBiden cannot keep letting Trump set the agenda The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump heads to New Hampshire after renomination speech Five takeaways on GOP's norm-breaking convention MORE said on Sunday that he had no reservations about putting U.S. military boots on the ground to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“I believe if that was necessary I would not hesitate to do that,” Carson told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”

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“But I would do that in consultation with some of our top military people, who, I think, have been, to some degree, disregarded,” he added of current strategies countering the terrorist group.

Carson said that he would evaluate using the armed forces on a case-by-case basis if elected president next year.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq, he argued, was one example of a bad judgment call.

“Well, clearly it has to be in the interest of America and the American people,” he said.

“And you know, in that particular case, back in 2003, I didn’t see that necessarily as being in our interest,” the retired neurosurgeon added.

Carson then said on Sunday that the threat posed by ISIS could likely justify ground combat in the long run.

“I do, however, see what’s going on now as being in our interest because as ISIS is growing and some of the other radical jihadists, their intention is to destroy us and our way of life,” he said. “And that’s a very different situation.”

Carson additionally disagreed with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and his assessment last week that ISIS had grown after decisions made by Republican foreign policy hawks.

“That certainly would not be my take on it,” he said of his 2016 rival.

“I believe that, you know, we kind of stirred things up when we went in there,” Carson said.

“But when we stirred them up even worse was when we left there and left an unstable situation,” he added.