The respective chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees said on Sunday that the U.S. has no strategy to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Sen. Richard Burr Richard Mauze BurrRep. Mark Walker says he's been contacted about Liberty University vacancy Overnight Defense: Trump rejects major cut to military health care | Senate report says Trump campaign's Russia contacts posed 'grave' threat Senate report describes closer ties between 2016 Trump campaign, Russia MORE (R-N.C.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, agreed during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the terrorist attacks on Paris resulted from the lack of a strategy to fight ISIS.

“We’ve got to have a strategy. We don’t have a strategy in Syria as it relates to ISIL,” Burr said, using an alternate acronym for the terror group. “The president talked the other morning about ISIL was contained. America learned within 24 hours that it’s not contained, it’s rampant.”

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President Obama announced he would send 50 Special Forces troops to Syria to aid rebel groups in the region, but Nunes said such measures are inadequate to deal with the problem.

“Fifty Special Forces [troops], which we’ve just upped in the last two weeks, that’s not enough to make a big impact," he said.

“You can’t fight ISIS unless you are willing to put a strategy together that deals with the failure of Libya, the problems in the Sinai, Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan-Pakistan region,” he added.

Nunes also called for the U.S. to close its borders to migrants from Syria, saying there’s no way to distinguish terrorists from refugees seeking asylum.

“There’s no possible way to screen them. It should be stopped immediately,” he said.

“Bottom line, if you don’t want refugees, you have to go into Iraq and Syria and defeat ISIS.”