I would say that this says more about the type of people in the White House than the situation in Afghanistan:

Senior White House advisers are fighting the U.S. military's request for a significant boost to troops in Afghanistan, as President Barack Obama is weighing options on the eight-year Afghan war...

This is despite the fact that:
Stanley A. McChrystal, top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has asked Obama to quickly endorse his call for a change in military strategy and approve the additional resources he needs to retake the initiative from the resurgent Taliban.
Well, it's good to know that Obama has his priorities straight. While on his failed attempt to get the Olympics for Chicago, he gave McChrystral 25 minutes on Air Force One to discuss the matter. I'd place a bet ... if given a pop quiz, Obama wouldn't be able to tell us General McChrystal's first name. Heck, I wonder if he even knows what McChrystal's voice sounds like. Here, for example, we have a picture of Obama carefully listening to his commanding officer in Afghanistan:

See what I mean?

[Update] Well, what do you know, I'm even ahead of Instapundit ... who just now posted a link to first, Democrats saying to Bush "we must listen to the generals!" from back in 2007, and then second, Democrats now saying "how dare the generals speak!" Well, as I said above, I don't think the generals are exactly speaking ... at least not in the presence of Obama who much prefers to hear the sound of his own voice.