As a "required duty" for the POTUS, here's my 2 cents Kimba.....I'll concede the "need" for an apology, but what needed to be done, simultaneously, is a "surge" if you will, of increased military presence & intervention, in fulfilling the current objectives, that has them there in the 1st place. The apology to placate the PC crowd, but with the added effort, if not a doubling effort, to let the Islamic radicals know that the apology should not be seen as a sign of weakness.
The former, without the latter, provided precisely that, I'm afraid, and likely has led to MORE deaths, not less, as erroneously opined by the quote "If a life can be saved by an apology, then an apology is clearly in order."