It would be very nice if Sokka learn to waterbend, he and his sister Katara could make a very good team.
And even if he doesn't waterbend i wish he were a more gifted fighter, Sokka sucks fighting, since the fisrt time i saw him fighting he disapointed me, i think in the first episode when Suko arrived to the south pole and Sokka tried to stop him, do you remenber that episode;??sokka with all that white and gray make up, he looked like a great hunter or fighter but he wasn't, Suko kicked his @ss in just like 2 seconds, it was really sad.
So i wish he waterbend or learn how to fight ferociously, it is ok that he makes the thinking but that's not enough, he has to fight!!!?? thinking won't save him all the time.