I wish we do isolate ourselves from the rest of the world until they came back crawling for forgiveness ;-)

I must, however disagree with this particular statement. That happened years ago. If every country was held responsible for generations after they did something wrong...well basically every country in the world would be ostracized, particularly the US, Germany, England and Italy.

Besides, us being the rude and boisterous Americans we are, if the rest of the world froze us out, we would likely just nuke 'em.

Freeze us out, we'll be fine, but you'll have to take all the illegals since they're not supposed to be here anyway.

Yeah, well...., we committed treason and there wasn't a damn thing they could do about it. Might makes right. ;)

I mean, who gave England the "authority" to "create" colonies?

I believe that when a group of people get sick and tired of the rest of the group, they should be allowed to secede. But that's just me ;)

Perhaps by British law it was illegal, but what nation would make secession legal? By international law it was legal because it was recognized by other sovereign States.