I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the below video, but it’s been making the rounds of Kurdish-opposition Twitter, and apparently depicts a member of the Peshmerga, the Iraqi Kurdish armed forces, firing on and destroying a suicide-bomb vehicle from the Islamic State. ISIS and the Syrian al-Qaeda faction from which it split last year, the Nusrah Front, both make liberal use of suicide car bombs and have been doing so since early in the Syrian civil war.

Kurdish forces, which more or less simultaneously the most pro-American, secular, and effective forces involved in the giant morass that is Iraq and the Syrian civil war, have been making some small advances of late: pushing the Islamic State out of Kobani, a town that had been besieged on the Turkish border for months, and holding their ground in Iraq.

But recently especially, they’ve been complaining that the U.S. has shown no interest in sending them new and heavy weaponry that they desperately need. There are a few wrinkles in arming the Kurds, but if the Obama administration is serious about beating the Islamic State anywhere, let alone everywhere, they ought to be entertaining the idea.