The two congressmen who went on a secret trip to Afghanistan to observe the evacuation process should not have gone, House leaders from both parties said Wednesday. “It was not, in my view, a good idea,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters in Washington. “This is deadly serious. I do not want members to go,” she said. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered a similar message, saying members “shouldn’t go.” But he qualified his statement by noting that Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) are both military veterans and that members are being contacted by people stranded in Afghanistan, including Americans. Moulton and Meijer said they went to Afghanistan to conduct oversight on the evacuation efforts. They said the visit was kept secret “to minimize the risk and disruption to the people on the ground, and because we were there to gather information, not to grandstand.” …