The "don't travel" list is published by the State Department as a precaution for U.S. citizens traveling to specified countries. It is not a prohibition against traveling to those countries. The traveler assumes his/her own risk if he/she travels there after being warned not to. The U.S. does not have agents at the Pakistani border confiscating passports of U.S. citizens trying to enter that country. That would be absurd.
The U.S. government cannot tell you where you can and cannot go on its passport. It is up to the countries you are visiting to give permission, issue visas, define terms of stay, or deny entry. If Pakistan says you can't enter on a U.S. passport, that is up to them.
As I understand it, the U.S. cannot prevent people from traveling to other countries using its passport. Indeed, the U.S. passport is a request by the U.S. State Department to allow passage to the bearer of the passport.
The country you are traveling to, in this case, Pakistan, is the one that allows or denies entry.
If someone attempted to enter Pakistan (even at that time) with a U.S. passport, the U.S. State Department could do nothing, other than say, "we warned you not to go there." There is nothing on the passport that says "this passport is invalid if one attempts to enter the following countries..."
Could Barack Obama have traveled to Pakistan on a U.S. passport? Yes, but it would have been unwise. It would not have been impossible.
Perhaps it would have been easier for him to use a passport from a Muslim country such as Indonesia, and considering his propensity for laziness, cutting corners, expediency, and deceptiveness, I wouldn't be surprised if that is what he did.
Thank you for the kind post..unlike some others.
Brings a question. How did he get a passport and how did he come up with the cash to travel since he hasnt a BC (or at least wont release it) and he was supposed to be flat broke at the time?
I am starting to think along the lines of Davis is his real daddy and he doesnt want to get into a political row over his daddy being a communist. On the other hand, why the fake Social Security Numbers?..if that is true? Maybe they didnt want Davis listed on his BC and listed Obama instead? Which would bring him under the citizenship thing.
Obama is backed into a corner and cant get out of it.
Another question, How much did it cost to fly to Pakistan or India in 1981?
I would guess quite a bit.