Pakistan, July 4 -- A global catastrophe looms-one entirely of our making, yet still within our power to avert. A stark new study from The Lancet forecasts 14 million preventable deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million children under five. Read that again, for this would mean 700,000 extra child deaths every year.

At the forefront of this retreat, the United States has slashed its foreign aid budget, gutting USAID, which once accounted for over 40% of global humanitarian relief. The has seen its funding slashed by a staggering 83%, reducing its capacity to respond to global health emergencies from 50 staff members to just 6. Such reductions amount to a gut punch to the very infrastructure that prevents suffering and saves lives. Other West...