The president is “skeptical”:

In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” one of five that Mr. Obama taped for the Sunday morning talk shows, the president was asked about a report that said General Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander in Afghanistan, had been told to delay any specific troop request.
“No, no, no, no,” Mr. Obama replied. He said that he had inherited a strategy on Afghanistan that was “somewhat adrift,” and wanted to restore a sharp focus on defeating the al-Qaeda threat.
“We lost that focus for a while and you started seeing a classic case of mission creep,” he said.
He added: “I don’t want to put the resource question before the strategy question.” But at a time of waning public support for the war — but a sense of urgency among some commanders in Afghanistan — he made clear in his interviews that there was no presumption that more troops would be the best answer.
“I am now going to take all this information,” he said on ABC’s “This Week,” “and we’re going to test whatever resources we have against our strategy, which is if by sending young men and women into harm’s way, we are defeating Al Qaeda and, and that can be shown to a skeptical audience, namely me — somebody who is always asking hard questions about deploying troops, then we will do what’s required to keep the American people safe.”
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” he put it this way: “We’re not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops we’re automatically going to make Americans safe.”