“We have a whole history here that’s not looking very good…in the past, public reports have shown that they’ve taken chemical weapons and configured them in a way that they could be used at a moment’s notice,” Rogers said, addressing his concerns. He added, “I believe they have intent to use it” and that intent “raises a whole new set of questions. Addressing recent international policy in the region, Rogers outlined his understanding of the sentiment toward the U.S. on the ground in Syria and stressed the need for American credibility in the Mideast. “The United States has lost the faith of the opposition. They even at one point turned down a meeting with the secretary of state of the United States, they were so fed up. Our allies in the region are getting very nervous about us.” “If we’re ever going to have a diplomatic solution where this regime doesn’t get to the point where it uses mass quantities of chemical weapons, we’ve got to rebuild our credibility,” he said. “One way to do that is to remove their capability to use chemical weapons on civilians.”