I guess I look at it like this. If the Webmaster was god and we are the people on earth, wouldn't he watch over us yet let us learn to overcome our problems so society would try to become better people? All the while opening doors for us to make a way out of our troubles and only intervening in a big way when we are about to blow up our world?
If we truly want peace like we say we do, then where is the effort to learn from our mistakes and from each other to do better?