CAUSE ALL HE DID WAS DEFEND HIMSELF NEVER WENT ON THE OFFINCIVE!!

He never had a chance to practice. All mastery needs practice.

I'm starting to think all airbenders know how to do is dodge and run. No offense. But come on Aang, kick Azula's ass already!

Yeahh... offincive...

........ www.dictionary.com *COUGH*

Maybe if Katara wasn't there, he'd probably go all out.

Like I mentioned, he never had the chance to practice. If he had stayed with Guru Patik??instead of charging to the defense of Katara and her unclear level of danger, he could have practiced a little.

As a person who has studied a fair amount on Ba Gua so far, the form of Kung Fu Aang has mastered to airbend, I've found it to be very much a defensive art.?? One of the major premises of Ba Gua is to "round off" your opponant's attacks and/or turn it back against them. I notice now that whenever Aang was attacking someone, he was using Tai-Chi (Waterbending) or Southern style Praying Mantis (Toph and Aang's style of Earthbending).?? Tai-Chi is not a very aggressive style of Kung Fu either, however most forms of praying mantis is or has much more potential to be.?? Aang has not been an earthbender all that long, even though he is learning from easily the most powerful earthbender there is.?? I would not be surprised if Aang could bend metal like Toph.?? I just think that if Aang had some more time to become confident with his skills and not have to worry about Katara's safety and mastering the Avatar state, he'd be alot more formidable.?? If you remember in "The Desert" Aang had no problem dropping people and things, without any regard to anyone or anything, when he was looking for Appa. All he had to go on was a little bit of waterbending, too.

I imagine I'd be very scared in a situation like Aang's.?? SO scared of losing Katara to SO many different things.?? Probably so scared of activating the Avatar state again and hurting SO many people.

He needs to learn the power of aggresion. I mean COME ON!!!!!! GET ANGRY AND KICK AZULAS BUTT!!!! FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!

I can say that he does need to learn firebending to complete his journey.?? As for his defensiveness can win battles easily too.?? Look at the Deserter episode.??
Aang said to Zhao, "You have lost this battle."??
Zhao then said, "How do you see that I lost the battle when you did not even throw a single punch."
Pointing to the boats on fire Aang then says, "But you have.?? Have a nice walk home."

Now Zhao lost his life to the spirit of the ocean.?? So in this instance I can agree that Aang does not want to kill anyone.?? That's why he saved Zuko from the blizzard.?? However he doe sunderstand that he needs to defeat Ozai.?? I think Pooldude said it one time that if you cut the head off the snake the body falls too.?? I think that is going to be when Aang will kill.?? He can kill Azula but she is really not his true target.?? He might think that she is a victim of her father's madness and that she might be saveable.?? Do we the viewers believe that??? No I do not think we do.

So in conclusion, I think Aang will kill only at the right time.?? To do so too early might create inner turmoil that might keep him from doing it at the critical moment that he needs to.