While Private Defense Contractors Should Make Out Like Bandits in Both Russia and Georgia

The party's over for investors in non-defense foreign industry:

Russia's invasion of neighboring Georgia has resurrected concerns about the geopolitical risks inherent in emerging markets.

But if the morally sawed-off Republicans yell loud enough about their selective grasp of injustices in Eastern Europe we won't notice the market forces driving the latest war and funding their candidates for office.

Do these guys have any short term memory when it comes to overthrowing a government, occupying a capital, knocking over their statues, stacking their prisoners, referring to the horrific level of civilian casualties as the "birth pangs of democracy"?